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

To: EPS who wrote (27682)	8/12/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42771

A Co-branded What? "In addition, Novell and AOL will work together to develop and distribute a co-branded instant messaging client that will link users of its business solutions to the AOL Instant Messaging community." Now what does this sound like? For AOL Instant Messaging to be able to communicate with Novell enterprise end users, we must be talking about putting a directory access into AOL Instant Messaging. QED that is the new product that is being rebranded. It then becomes the end-user client? That means Novell sells it to its customer base. (What does Novell sell its current messaging client for?) Moreover with NDS as the directory being used by AOL that makes NDS the heavily weighted open directory standard that the committee is working on to allow other non AOL clients, say MSFT, to communicate with AOL customers with their own messaging clients? Did I get it right? Is this AOL saying to MSFT 'you are not going to do to us what you did to Lotus when you introduced Windows.' Is this AOL saying we are going to go with NDS as the directory for the internet that we hook into and not MSFT's "active" directory because we know you want to kill our client by introducing your directory? This is looking much smarter as a move by both AOL and Novell--- and IBM jumped on board. Do I see a digitalme billing system in AOL's ecommerce future?