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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (30314)	2/14/2000 12:56:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello PJ, > Now, creating a secured environment (even if it has to be a turnkey > solution with a pre-configured server or hosted within a > datacenter) to Instant Messaging could be a viable niche no? I actually have seen this as the ultimate directory application for years! But I was never able to understand the thinking going on at Novell related to this area ... I think that as I have viewed markets in the past, this one will explode when a company creates the distributed solution. A lot of money will be made by the company that "cracks the nut" and allows companies to own and operate IM servers without the ties to big brother. A customer might choose to still use the other products, but they have the option then ... There is no reason to have a third party sit in the middle, except to allow them a piece of your profit ... either in real cash or information. Just like e-mail services, or file services, etc. This is what I see as an inevitable future ... it will come ... and someone will profit from it ... it's just a matter of time. ;-) Scott C. Lemon