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

To: Don Troppmann who wrote (34472)	10/26/2000 10:33:04 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

Don I just didn't understand what the election was all about until Gilder (and you) enlightened me. Gee government restrictions on cell phone radiation, George is right, that must be how Al will crush the internet. He will devastate the business environment by introducing more of those damn environmental regulations and slow down the acceptance of wireless! Once upon a time this country was a free market. You could xray your toes in the shoe store. Put plutonium in your refrigerator. You should have seen how those electromagnetic radiation restrictions coming out of socialist sweden and put into effect in this country by commie run companies like IBM ruined the CRT market. Japanese took over our TV sets. Put flouride in our water! I like xray induced brain tumors. TURN UP THE JUICE GEORGE!!! ****************************** As a platinum Gilder subscriber I got the special email message the night before the issue you cribbed went out in the mail in which he also argues that Houston's air quality is good for microwave signal reception in the Q mhz band. Smog is good. Or as they say in Texas, "we can fix anything around here, even our children's test scores." I'm just surprised I never thought about these things before. It must be George Bush's great intellect having its effect upon me already. Yaaahooooo!!!! Party Hardy. Hey Yo, Skull and Crossbone brothers...Anybody want to lend me 600K to buy a ball club and turn it into 6 million by convincing Provo to build us a stadium? Don, I see you have swallowed the whole line and sinker.

To: Don Troppmann who wrote (34472)	10/26/2000 10:44:49 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

it seems that most of Novell has gone into its shell. The marketing people and even the people i helped on the new ASP strategy have generally not called back or are seem eager for business. I cant understand it. It ssems like moral inside Novell is real low all around and they just dont seem to have the spunk. I was just talking to a Director at our local City Government IT shop. He stated that they are headed toward a full organization-wide Active Directory rollout!!! I asked him if he knows the extent of this strategy for his NetWare departments, NT4 shops, Windows/95 workstations, other non-Windows2000 servers, and network devices that could not take advantage of Active Directory. He kinda understood the limitations but was assured by MSFT that all will be OK. I also said "let me guess...MSFT has offered any of the software free and even is providing free top level Microsoft support". He said, "hey yes how did you guess?". I said "because Microsoft is desperately looking for a complete AD rollout that they can brag about since most customers realize the limitations of AD, and if you fail, well they offered you free software". PS: this organization has NDS structures inside it. I just dont think there are enough Novell sales feet on the street and those that are trying to help Novell just dont get enough support or rewards for helping Novell. Now that I am a non-IBMer vendor, I know what it feels like to be a soo small that Novell doesnt even care. I am working on the small vendor thing as we speak. Ohh Well {sigh} Toy