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

To: Loring who wrote (29221)	12/5/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

So you really don't understand what consumer level products are. Ask yourself this, is Windows NT a consumer level product or "plumbing"? Winsock is definitely "plumbing" but what about the browser, it is a consumer level product. In Novell terms, file and print server versions of the NOS like 3.X were consumer level products at the time and were more like the Windows NT application servers of today. Intranetware for Small Business coupled with Quicken was an attempt at a consumer level product. In current Novell terms all of the directory based apps used over the internet are potentially consumer level products. This would include digitalme, business to consumer based applications based upon ichain. A major consumer based product that Novell has announced partnerships for at COMDEX was the use of e-directory by Alta Vista for instant messaging. (This may be the first break-through consumer app for Novell.) In general consumer level products would refer to any directory based applications that run over the internet and are operated by end-users --- be they businesses with commercial web sites, virtual communities, or individuals. Did that help you?