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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (32018)	5/25/2000 8:52:00 PM
From: kilo_watt	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42771

Absolutely right on, PJ, you hit the nail on the head. I hope everyone here understands that when you care about something passionately, you have a tendency to defend it passionately. Regarding Frederick's post asking about my personal vision-- great question by the way-- I'll take a stab, but this is going to be somewhat extemporaneous so bear with me. Novell is a great place to work. You're surrounded by smart people and you get to work with technology that will touch the lives of millions and millions of people. The facilities are fantastic, benefits incredible, compensation is reasonable. That in and of itself is enough to keep someone coming to work happy for a long long time. I'm a competitive person by nature and want to do and be the best. This is my primary motivation: give me a goal and I want to blow it away in record time. It's basic, but true. Novell gives me concrete goals, and I appreciate that. I don't envision a world where any one paradigm is necessarily dominant. My vision of Novell is a company that is creating its own future, much unlike the strategy of our monopolist competitor. One of the reasons it's exciting to work here is that we're not producing commodity products. I would argue that we're capable of making more of an impact on the world than Cisco has. Our technology has value and relevence far beyond price and ubiquity. My goal, ultimately, in terms of the business, is to create a world where our customers DEMAND Novell solutions. My execution against that goal is to overachieve my performance measures primarily, and to involve myself and lend my labor to as many appropriate other projects or missions as I can manage and make sense. I also employ discreet shouting to get things accomplished or moving, but this exposes me to criticism. Sometimes you gotta crack the whip :) I hope I've addressed your question.