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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WE89 who wrote (27139)	6/9/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: fb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

WE89, thanks for that post, it was a good one. And thanks to all the others who responded to my post with their thoughtful comments. I am a small holder of NOVL, holding only 17000 shares, but I have most of my retirement in NOVL so in my case it is a big deal for me!! My problem with NOVL, having had it since 1995 and watching it go down down down and then up up up, is that I have fears about MFST. Tho NOVL "may" have the best technology, MFST has all the money, and as someone already said previous, all MFST has to do is "blow their horn" and the people come a running, whether or NOT their product is good. I think that what bothers me the most is NOVL's TENTATIVENESS....in the way they make their presentations, and in their ENTIRE approach to marketing. Their advertising, compared to what it could and should be, is NON-EXISTENT!! The FACTS are obvious: NOVL DOES NOT CONSIDER ADVERTISING TO BE A BIG DEAL!!! PERIOD!!! THAT is a no brainer!! They are playing as if they had the game won already, when in fact, they should be in a "FULL COURT PRESS!!!" All this cheerleading and "positive attitude" stuff that I read everywhere about NOVL reminds me of the old crude saying..."wish in one hand and POOP in the other and see which one fills up first!! If anyone from NOVL is reading this post, what I want to hear from NOVL THEMSELVES, NOT SOME ANALYST OR NOVL CHEERLEADER, is WHAT are you going to do to protect the stockholders and WHEN are you going to do it??? (I'm starting to sound like Joe Antol :-( And, by-the-way NOVL, you NEVER DID RESPOND TO MY LENGTHY letter to you describing in detail how you lost part of the State Farm Insurance account. Now, why is that?? fb