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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (27227)	6/24/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Magic 25 June 24, 1999 All Systems Still Go At Novell Since early March, shares of Novell have bounced around in the $20-25 range. But the behind-the scenes action at the company's Utah headquarters gives the impression that Novell will increasingly offer cutting-edge, net-based software that helps boost the performance of the Internet as well as Intranets. fnews.yahoo.com

To: ToySoldier who wrote (27227)	6/25/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

You have to take some time and look over the "Billion User Tree". It's quite impressive. As for Novell's Booth at PC Expo: 1) It was in the most out of the way place IMAGINABLE. Upstairs from the main floor with NO OTHER exhibitors. 2) IT WAS PACKED! I stood in line for about 45 minutes before giving up just to get a seat in the "Novell Theater" to watch the presentation. During my wait I got the opportunity to see a demo of something called CRENDENTIA. It's a system that created ID Badges which when swiped by their system, authenticated the ID Badge with a user in NDS. One small step and this product becomes digitalme-enabled :) Next, I took some time to ask some questions regarding the Internet Caching System. They had both a DELL and Compaq system up and running. They demo'd quite a few things but mostly I wanted to ask a few questions... 1) What was Novell doing to get the ISPs to take notice? ANS: Several regional ISPs were currently testing ICS LIVE. He couldn't go on to tell me who they were but in one case, the LIVE test end after a 30 day period at which time the ISP removed ICS only to get a flood of tech support calls from customers regarding performance issues. The ISPs has since re-installed ICS :) He also explained the Novell and CPQ had "donated" a dozen ICS machines to the Abilene project (Internet2) which was going very well. 2) Any other companies joining Dell and Compaq? ANS: Quantex and Pionex had announced support for the ICS. They will be building and reselling the ICS system for their clients. Now another really interesting product I spent some time with was BranchManager for NT. This is a very interesting product for companies where NetWare is the main NOS and NT is working its way into the network from the branch end. This product allows you to centrally manage your branch offices running purely on NT from HQ by adding and NDS replica to the NT server. The demo of adding/modifying users was quite impressive. So in all, I was quite impressed with the amount of attention Novell was getting. I don't think the umbrella was the only reason so many people were there. Even so, they did get to watch "the message" so perhaps that was well worth it. I saw some other impressive items including: - The Palm VII. Ok, Santa, if you're reading...I WANT ONE! - The ORB drive from Castlewood Systems -- just like the Iomega JAZ drive only faster and the media is 1/3 the price. - Panasonic's Home Web Theater -- like WebTV meets Video on Demand. - MSFT's Office 2000 -- ok, their demo was real impressive until I asked them this question: "If I create a PowerPoint presentation and save it as a webpage then a colleague opens this presentation in FrontPage to edit some misspelled words and saves it, is it true that FrontPage will strip away the code Office2000 uses to web-enble the presentation?" His answer was "PowerPoint has a spell checker so I don't think you need to worry about that." Too bad -- users are going to find out the hard way that what MSFT did to web-enable their Office product was to add code into each document you create which can be removed by another one of their products if you are not careful. PJ Strifas