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

To: DJBEINO who wrote (30179)	2/7/2000 8:08:00 PM
From: David Alan Cook	Respond to of 42771

NOVL Chart Looks Good:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/research/chart.gsp?lotemp=&period=120&chart1=ma&s=NOVL&compare=&time=day&i0=1&chart=bar&i1=6&scale=linear&i2=7&i3=0 My Three Reasons for Buying NOVL at $12.44 Ask on 20 Sept 98 remain unchanged: 1) Trades at a Discount to the Industry Average Price Ratios 2) Favorable Turnaround chart Pattern 3) New Products and New Partnerships Offer Potential for growth. Recommending a buy and Hold approach DC

To: DJBEINO who wrote (30179)	2/7/2000 8:48:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Novell Swings Back by Andy Patrizio Wired wired.com Novell's program, The Novell Advantage over Windows 2000, takes aim at Windows 2000 in general, and its Active Directory service in particular. Microsoft itself routinely compares its Active Directory to Novell Directory Services (NDS), often unfavorably. The Advantage site features lengthy rebuttals to Microsoft's claims, plus a daily "Did you know?" feature that pokes holes in Microsoft's claims about Windows 2000. Novell points out that NDS has been around for more than 10 years. It's mature and available on a number of platforms, while Windows 2000 is brand new, bound to have bugs, and Active Directory is a Windows 2000-only solution. Beyond that, much of Novell's beef is with a feature on Microsoft Direct Access called "Windows 2000 Server: A Prime Choice over Novell's NetWare 5." Novell calls Redmond's claims "false and misleading," with "many blatant untruths in an attempt to mislead existing and potential Novell customers." For example, Microsoft claims its Active Directory is more scalable and supports millions of objects. It says NDS has poor scalability and uses an outmoded, flat-file database as its information store that causes performance-related problems when scaling beyond 1,000 objects within a directory partition. Novell says NDS 8 -- the latest version of Novell Directory Services, released in 1999 -- supports terabytes of storage and the capacity to store over one billion objects. MS says Active Directory supports LDAP and DNS, while NDS offers only limited support and that neither service is integrated into NDS. Novell says NDS 8 natively supports LDAP and DNS. Microsoft routinely compares Active Directory to older -- in some cases, much older -- versions of NDS, according to Dave Eckert, competitive analysis manager for Novell, in Provo, Utah. "They don't use version numbers, but we know they are using older versions or technical reports from two years ago," Eckert said. "We had people asking us about their comparisons of Active Directory to NDS, where they're referring to things from two or three versions ago." The Novell Advantage Over Windows 2000 novell.com