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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (30607)	3/4/2000 9:43:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

Not "pure consumer" but end user and compelling (must have) It is easy to forget that the my concept of digitalme as propounded here more than a year ago was not a consumer product, it was a consumer level product --- it was a method of conducting secure e-commerce and giving the end user a digital identity not dependent upon vendor "profiles". I haven't lost track of what digitalme should have become. Just yesterday I read more about how the personal identity personal security market is being conceptualized by various software/hardware companies. This is going to be another internet missed opportunity situation. Here is Novell with LAN dominance in the early 90's and it misses the whole internet phenomena. Gosh I guess the intenet must have been a consumer product! What nonsense. Novell needs to first look at its underlying technology --- which it has firmed up quite nicely with all of its ichain, DirXML, eDirectory products. IT then has to take its overall net services message, send its consultants out there to interact with its potential customers and find a compelling directory app for the end users of its systems and the internet. I consider CNN and ALTA VISTA end users of Novell technology. The infrastructure of the internet requires secure ecommerce. For me digitalme was the basis of providing that to end users. Digitalme ended up as a kind of half baked instant messaging system for consumers to play with. I still can't figure out what the hell they did with this product, but it clearly isn't the digital identity vault, transaction processing system that I envisioned. IT seems to be a product produced by a committee with heavy on the committee type political interactions and having basically no customers and no purpose and no market. The good news about digitalme is that Novell is giving away the tools for other companies to do the product right. Other companies are developing precisely the type of digitalme that I envisioned and I read about them every single day. Where's Novell? Caught up in its own political net. These companies however are not using Novell's underlying technology. There is the missed opportunity again.