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

To: Dieter Koerner who wrote (31192)	4/24/2000 12:51:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Dieter..... >>Waldy, I have been investing in this Co. since before Joe Antel. Nothing has changed on the board of directors, this duffers can't get excited about nothing. I'm beginning to think that they lead our Dr., and it should be, the Dr. leading them!!! We should send him a broom to clean out the that part of the company. Oh well, some are not even attending the meetings. Dieter>> I watched Novell's BOD meeting. Many empty chairs, staid/laconic tone. You could have shot a cannon through the place. Key people on Novell's board should be sent hiking. The days of running companies like clubs are OVER. I was hoping Paul would have turned up as a guy who could be counted on to raise the flag, hold up the sword and get these folks off the dime. Instead, he's opted to play the fine line with "the club" and win more brownie points among the old guard engineers by chuckling over or erradicating the thought that INDIVIDUALS like me even exist. It's important to pick the right side to fight on. I've picked ONE side: the INDIVIDUAL. Let a New Net Services-empowered Novell reach/extend/find/factor/sort/search and serve it's way into the intersection between and among all these disparate emerging "network of netoworks". Example: Wall Street doesn't know it, but AOL is now down to 18 million "REAL" - active - members. INDIVIDUALS are jumping into the FREE ISP movement in growing droves. We are witnessting the growth of these blended/bundled trust networks firsthand. There's one network which is growing faster then AOL did in the early days - eg. it will be doing $550 million in gross revenues by the end of 2000, up from $20 mm last year. They are growing by 8000-10,000 per day. We are witnessing this firsthand for we are working directly with the executives, leaders and managers who are helping to build out this nework on a worldwide basis. Where is Novell in these New channels??? Nowhere. Could Novell's technology be used to better support, serve, store, factor and secure individual data and information - ie. profiles, preferences, etc??? You bet!! Who's in bed with these folks right now? MICROSOFT!! Again, Eric or somebody inside or outside better do something before Novell is becomes a metaphor for two words: "No - where" Peace. GO!!

To: Dieter Koerner who wrote (31192)	4/24/2000 6:49:00 PM
From: waldemar cyranski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Dieter, we have been blindsided by all the technical stuff for years thinking we had invested in a leading edge technical software company. In my humble stupidity besides being sucked in at 21 by my broker(OLDE) who teased me with no commissions on 1000 lot purchases, I thought any progressive company with Novl's technology, no debt and a billion dollars in the bank had to be a good investment!@#$$#@! Reading over my postings over the past several years I realize clearly that few were answered, many were just ignored , others just were in the way of the technical stuff being thrown around. I feel warm & fuzzy all over knowing that what I observed, expressed is/was correct and at the same time didnt mean a fiddlers f**k to the price of the shares....The bullshit has exhausted me, all that remains is my order for 1000 shares at 15 and 1000 shares at 13 .........Whats amazing to me is that no one seems to have reported any contrarian comments coming out of the stockholders meeting?????? What the hell did they do throw sand on all the participants that may have had a disagreeable look on their faces.........In my humble opinion Eric. S. does not have CONTROL of the company as his titles allow him! He has malicious obedience amongst his subordinates and the board of directors probably spend most of their time vocalizing at the Temple waiting to go on a xmas singing tour......Therein is my subjectively OBJECTIVE opinion! sic. Oops! one more thought, I'll bet that Fred S. is making more money at what ever it is that he does well, than all the other critics here that malign his efforts for change....This country has a history of scoffing at anyone that just dosnt march to the acceptable beat..........and yet all our successes come from men like Fred S. tsk. tsk. Waldy