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

To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (31198)	4/25/2000 12:16:00 AM
From: Villemure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Maybe we need Joe to get back on their case, because Marketing at Novell has reached an all-time low. As a shareholder, I'm especially angry and concerned with the slovenly, unprofessional execution on Novell.com and in recent press releases. Consider today's Schemax press release: <<Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leading supplier of Net services software, today announced that ScheMax(TM) 1.1, a next-generation directory tool in Novell's Net Services Console product initiative...A component of Novell's Net Management Services, ScheMax and the NetConsole products are providing the administration tools for the infrastructure that powers One net. >> Let's see. It's not worth commenting on their fractured grammar. Suffice it to say that in two awkward, horribly written paragraphs we get Net Services, directory, directory tool, Net Management Services, Net Services Console initiative, infrastructure, and One net. Leave it to Novell to create this kind of weird confusion. You can look through dozens of other high tech announcements on the Wire today and you will find nothing so convoluted, confusing, awkward, impenetrable and bizarre. <<By making ScheMax available for free, Novell is adding power and muscle to NDS eDirectory and ensuring customers have tools to effectively administer Net infrastructure resources.>> Is adding power and muscle different from just adding power? What in the world does it mean to "effectively administer Net infrastructure resources?" <<The NetConsole products are fully integrated across all Novell Net services software in order to make management and administration as easy as possible.>> Now they are starting to sound like total morons. Easy as possible? Give me a break! It's inexcusable for a $1 billion public company to communicate in public on such a crude and ineffective level. Don't be fooled by Novell statements about Marketing getting better. Just take a look at the recent press releases and Novell.com. Marketing at Novell is steadily getting worse. Paul, Toy, please drop me an email at ebssyndrome@hotmail.com giac ####