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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (34572)	11/2/2000 10:35:11 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Off To DisneyWorld.... >>He's up to 13 posts a day all the same Amazing. They need to improve the ignore button on SI.>> You can thank Mickey Mouse. Wife and our two boys. Staying inside the park. Meeting with some folks early next week in Clearwater who we are working with. A funny little, new company with a great name...... GOSolo Which is part of "GO Solutions" The whole world will be embracing GO!!! GOvell!! Peace. GO!!

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (34572)	11/2/2000 10:46:11 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Paul..... >>He's up to 13 posts a day all the same Amazing. They need to improve the ignore button on SI.>> There must be some other agenda behind what you say. Why you posted NINE (9) times to my 13 - and I'll take your word for it for I didn't count mine. Must be a "quality" and "content" issue rather than "quantity." At least the 10 cent aplogists are unified. I'm the "bad guy" for even bringing this up. "Let's just move on...." Perhaps Orlando or "Clearwater" could be a better place than San Jose. I'll be thinking about this. Loosen up your tie Paul. Relax a little more. Let GO and Let's GO!! Peace.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (34572)	11/2/2000 2:28:07 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Even a drop of water wears down the stone...perhaps his messages just wore down the Ignore feature? What amazes me is that he has to answer EVERYONE's post whether intended for him or not with the SAME stuff! It's like having a deck of cards and finding a joker every other one! It's actually a problem when reading SI via the wireless Palm app they have. I wait for the download only to find more recycled diatribe....good thing I don't pay by the kb. Regards, Peter J Strifas

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (34572)	11/2/2000 2:48:23 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42771

REAL NEWS about Novell. Ok, so I attended a Novell "seminar" regarding the new upcoming version of GroupWise (Novell's collaboration software). Good show - very nicely done and a good turnout as well. Now for the marketing stats: - GroupWise last year added 40% new users without a new software release (increase of 8 million users - reported by IDC) - Within the enterpise, GroupWise is second only to Lotus Notes in number of users. Now for the future stuff: Enhanced client software and services including contact management, instant messaging, user level time zone and newsgroup support. Also, in the future, GroupWise will make the transition to a web-based client only. Right now, the web-based client is good but lacks all the features of the Windows-based client. With the next version of GroupWise, they will get close to 90% fucntionality into the web-based client. There are many new feature enchancements on the client side. I'd love to list them all and discuss them but from an end-user standpoint (and I do use it), they are much needed and desired. They spoke at length about the eDirectory integration with GroupWise becoming tighter. They also discussed how GroupWise can be installed onto any platform you choose (WinNT/2000, Red Hat 6.1, Sun Solaris 2.6/8.0 or NetWare) and that you will need eDirectory (which installs on any of those platforms as well). They will ship eDirectory with the next version of GroupWise too. They also discussed the wireless integration which was pretty outrageous. Forwarding emails via a cell phone, addressbook access to make calls from it and other GroupWise actions were fully accessible from a WAP-enabled phone or a PDA. Novell is using it in production with great success. Now, the message here was that Novell has this great product. That's something anyone can check out but downloading and installing a demo of it. But the real interesting message was the Novell has the consulting to help you set it up (or migrate from existing email system) and the training resources to train not only admins but end-users. This last bit was very interesting because Novell admitted that one problem to selling this nice solution was that users didn't know how to fully take advantage of it. Now they have an affordable training piece set in place (via a 3rd party called BrainStorm Inc). So from a solutions standpoint, they have: 1) a very good product that will integrate with whatever back-end you have. 2) all the features you'd want including email, task mgmt, document mgmt, calendaring/scheduling, instant messaging, contact mgmt and newsgroup support. 3) the consulting services to help you to integrate the solution into your system. 4) training for your network admin types to manage and maintain the sytem. 5) the training partners ready, willing and able to step in and get your employees using the product productively fast. From a technical standpoint, this product has: 1) all the leading groupware features as well as a development environment to enhance features. 2) integration with the market leading directory services product. 3) scalability, reliability and security you would expect from a product like this. 4) improved performance through new architecture and new code. When I get some more time, I'll post some more.... Regards, Peter J Strifas