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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (28053)	9/10/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

How digitalme will be introduced My expectation is that we will see a product that emphasizes good internal engineering and good external compatibility with industry standards. The future end user capabilities and design of this product will be driven by us. I have to emphasize that. The users of digitalme will be responsible for getting the product to evolve. The initial conception is not carved in stone. Having said that, I posted the bank card announcement here a few posts ago. What is wrong with that bank's approach is that they use this complicated smart card to save typing key strokes not to increase their card holders security! They haven't figured out that you need an identity vault out on the net to make ecommerce secure. Clearly this bank didn't get it. I expect many other such misses. Whether these misses pollute the digitalme concept or whether digitalme emerges as the head and shoulders ecommerce leader in user identification/verification/authentication by going with an identity vault concept will be an important thing to watch. The question for Novell will be (1) whether enough end users emerge to drive the product (2) whether the Novell team can respond fast enough to the input. A good design team anticipates what is needed. We shall see.