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

To: straight life who wrote (29899)	1/12/2000 9:54:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello straight life, This is great news. Eric has been on this as long as he has been with Novell. If the U.S. doesn't become more aggressive with encryption solutions, the world will find other solutions for secure communications. This is a request to Novell (anyone out there reading!) to please give me SSL client connections! This would be a great offering since it would combine the industry standard SSL (with appropriate encryption) with Novell's client capabilities. With the increases in bandwidth, the use of the Novell client can provide all of it's capabilities over the Internet. The performance is really acceptable with dual-ISDN, and when you go to DSL or cable modem, the performance in amazing. The last piece is the encrypted connection, without having to have a VPN for each server. SSL would provide this. Secure point-to-point is going to be a huge area of the future ... Scott C. Lemon (P.S. Hey! Novell Client Team! Even over a 56K dial-up connection I usually have active connections to two or three NetWare 5 servers that are running out on the Internet. And there are dozens of us sharing those servers ... and it's very cool! The client is the application ... ;-)