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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (36001)	3/4/2001 12:04:25 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

eDirectory and Toronto --- Novell's opportunity The way I see this deal is that Toronto is giving Novell the test bed for a large scale directory deployment in the public service sector. It's a make or break for Novell. If they can show that: (1) deploying a cross platform directory is the key to a secure digital identity for Toronto's residents (2) an eDirectory based internet system can be used to effectively engage the public in ecommerce transactions with the city agencies and in so doing cut the costs of delivering government services to the public (3) an eDirectory based system can be used to form the basis for the building of virtual communities around the digital identities the citizens eventually obtain from the city. then Novell will have its killer app for the internet. The key is getting the infrastructure to the level where it can support developing the directory based apps and virtual community initiatives that will revive Novell's broad based deployment past. You have to be able to think about what Novell was doing when it first made it possible to connect up a LAN. Same potential. Same opportunities. I'm thinking along the lines of small scale email servers for clubs and organizations using some version of what Novell does with its MYREALBOX servers as a possible way to think about where this might be headed. Today I was signing up people at a local sports event. 80 out of 100 had email addresses that they could remember. Chief complaint --- I don't read it because I can't wade through the spam. Filtering anyone. Manageable filtering software????? It's not there on MYREALBOX, but it is there in the proxy server somewhere! The problem is I'm not sure anybody at Novell can think big or plot out the moves anymore.....