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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 (36562)	5/22/2001 2:44:15 AM
From: RIT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

So unlike what many people think, Novell could be heavily into the Peer to Peer space with a real business application and solution. And on top of that, the directory could replace the proprietary solutions being developed and deployed by the people claiming to have "peer to peer" solutions. Hi Scot, If you mention my name to Ed Shropshire or Alan Clark, you will find that I have about the same view on where Novell could take eDirectory, plus a few issues about its current plans. Novell has to be bolder than just providing the best LDAP directory and as it moves forwards the best SLP service. Novell must provide additional tools/solutions that tie developers to its platform. A good example of this is the proposed LDAP extension API. Also Novell must have a much broader view of its client base, when deciding on projects. Novell was porting a full publish and subscribe engine which would have intergrated with eDirectory, but this was put on hold last year. At BrainShare a good few Novell staff commented that there was not enougth market need for such a solution!!!! As I come from the finanical markets such a comment stunned me, as all market information is handled by p&s. Roger

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (36562)	5/22/2001 9:54:43 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Notice this interaction Scott puts his tippy toes in the water outside fortress Novell and we get serious intellectual discussion on this thread of the possibilities of P2P. If ever there was a company that failed to understand the creative process that company was and is Novell. ================= Does anyone remember that they brought Adams in to run digitalme and that he left that project behind ASAP and climbed up a few notches on the corporate ladder as marketing guru and then left Novell to get away from marketing and go back into managing a software project/company more directly. What a f****g joke. And nobody at Novell was even permitted to laugh. Novell is most comfortable hiring the dumbest corporate man they can find. (remember Slitz) Gee I think we can make him understand this project.....if we take him hiking? Duh. Paul's thoughts on whom to fire at Novell: "Fire the manager that cannot manage creative engineers. Do it first! Do not fire the creative engineers so that the manager will no longer have a management problem."