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

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (34484)	10/28/2000 8:36:17 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Novell and Linux In my travels to Silicon Valley 95-98, my friends were all building Linux networks for the internet to operate out of their homes. These systems consisted of a Linux gateway machine, and a Linux server, and various Windows machines. I routinely pointed my DNS lookup to one of my friends servers when my own ISP DNS server crashed too frequently. Isn't it interesting to see Scott discovering Linux circa October 2000. Incidentally I have never, never been able to convince any of my Linux friends to take even a passing look at Netware. They will run Microsoft to play games but as for Netware, forget it. Not even edirectory services separated from Netware has any attraction. You can only wonder where Novell has been during the entire Caldera Linux move. As to Red Hat. What is important is not the notion Scott has that somehow this is a worthy Linux to look into but the simple fact that Red Hat has agreed to get involved in promoting a Linux based eDirectory. The majority of the Linux community isn't on board any particular directory system. It is up to Novell to convince them that eDirectory is a better approach than various LDAP schemes. That can only be done by opening up the world of directory based apps to Linux programmers. Should NDS be free on Linux? What method of open sourcing works with directory technology? Would it be sufficient to give away the directory tools and licensed binaries to get people in the Linux world to develop on top of NDS? I don't know, but I think Novell has quite a bit of deep thinking to do in this area. What I see out there now in the Linux world is a bunch of short sighted yahoos thinking that Novell going down somehow means they are going up. Noone uses Linux over Unix for corporate networks. Similarly noone will use Linux over Novell. But defining the niches in which Linux will be used over Unix or NT and supporting thsoe niches is important to Novell's future. Several years ago I posted here that promoting the use of Linux workstations over NT was to Novell's advantage. Today promoting the use of Linux applications (directory enabled) servers may also be to Novell's advantage. Can Novell figure out a way to do it?