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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (28056)	2/21/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Bill, your discussion is fascinating and one of the best I've read for a while. My only comment is that I believe SUNW has been keenly aware of this for a while and has been planning a strategy. I was surprised when Eric Schmidt left SUNW in 1997 to head NOVELL, but it all made sense to me when I read Gilders' discussion of the storewidth paradigm and that he has now added NOVL to his list of telecosm stocks because of its crucial directory services. SUNW and NOVL form a very nice strategic pair. Do Eric and Scott play golf? All the best, Michael Dr. Eric Schmidt Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Novell, Inc. Dr. Eric Schmidt joined Novell in April 1997 as chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer. At Novell, Dr.Schmidt is actively involved in all significant and strategic decisions and plays a central role in the technical development and management of the company. Under his leadership, Novell has completed a corporate turnaround and entered a new era as a growth company and leader in Net software spanning all networks and operating systems. Dr. Schmidt came to Novell from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer. In his 14 years at Sun, Dr. Schmidt held a range of progressively more responsible executive positions, where he earned international recognition for his contributions to the development of the Internet as a tool for building digital communities in business, government, education, science and culture. He was also instrumental in the development and transfer to the marketplace of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming language. Prior to joining Sun, Dr. Schmidt was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He also held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Dr. Schmidt holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a master?s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his bachelor?s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.