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

To: Joe Antol who wrote (18516)	11/15/1997 5:08:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Joe, > Scott. I know you're not going to answer me but whatever. Joe ... I'll always try my best to answer you! ;-) > Bring it up Scott. Show me. No such post exists. I'm sorry, but after you posted the challenge, I decided to look. As I said I remebered seeing a post I figured that it had to be here somewhere. It appears that what I saw was post #14768 which reads as follows: > To: Paul Fiondella (14766 ) > From: Paul Fiondella > Friday, Jul 18 1997 5:02PM EST > Reply #14768 of 18518 > > CHECK THIS ONE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Subject: Email to Peter Troop > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:23:50 -0700 > From: Estelle Stephens <ESTEPHEN@novell.com> > To: softel@direcpc.com > CC: Estephen@novell.com > > Dear Mr. Flondella, > > Before leaving for vacation, Peter Troop asked me to follow up on a > question that you raised in your recent email concerning John > Young's compensation. In reference to that inquiry, when Mr. > Young's role changed from Acting CEO to Vice Chairman, his > compensation was reduced. However, it is our corporate policy not > to comment on employee compensation except as required in Novell's > annual proxy. > > Sincerely, > Estelle Stephens > > Investor Relations Manager > estephen@novell.com > 408-577-6259 I'm sorry to say that my statement that "John Young was no longer getting $10k per week" appears to be based on this post. > The leech John Young continues to rape the shareholders and the > company. Ok ... I will grant you that this message does not say that it was eliminated ... but it does say reduced. Until you can give me a specific figure I'm not sure that I can agree with your perspective. > This is not an issue of wasting bandwidth. Cowpland sold 20 > million of his stock 2 weeks before Corel tanked (and a whole lotta > other Corel insiders did also). You gonna tell me he as CEO didn't > have the "numbers"? Gimmie a break. Can you please explain the relationship to Novell in this example? I thought we were talking about John Young and Novell ... > Bring the post up. The sucker is still raking in the 10 grand. > Period. I'm sorry ... but you appear to be wrong. > The company's dirty Scott. No maybe's about it. Ok ... maybe I don't understand your specific definition of "dirty" in this context. > Why does David Bradford and Glen Ricart keep dumping their stock? I don't know. Maybe they need the money and/or the loss for accounting reasons ... I don't know that I can relate the actions of a few people to the whole company ... Why am I continuing to buy? > They don't seem to have too much faith in their (your) company. Why > should the stockholders? You didn't answer me on this one (and you > won't will you?). There not just dumping a few months ago, but > recently and consistently. Again, I would differ on my definition of "dumping" ... although I don't care to speculate on the "faith" of these two individuals. Maybe they don't have faith in the company ... so are they the ones "in the know" that you base investment decisions on? Are others "dumping"? > The company's dirty Scott, and like Steve says --- you know it. I would need a better definition from you to determine that ... > Read our white paper again Scott. The suggestions for the Novell > Board were and are just as good for the Novonyx board. This IMO > (and a lot of other people -- is a "obvious stunt" to take care of > the "the good ole' boyz". You don't like to hear what I have to say > --- too bad. If your suggestions (and I'm not saying that they are good or bad) were presented to all shareholders (or the large ones that you contacted) then why weren't the changes made? Is there another, possibly larger, group of shareholders that has faith in the board? As for opinions, they are just that. My opinion is that I have not been presented with enough fact to draw conclusions. Sorry ... I tend to think and work in logical, not emotional, ways. > The company's dirty. > > Novell's stuck in inertia. You're going nowhere. Watch the results > of COMDEX. Report on the headcount and interest at your booths, and > MSFT's, and IBM's, and LOTUS's, etc. > > Lemme know when the big "splash" hits the enterprise. > > (It ain't comin' Scott. You guys are in "spiral mode" --- read: > WANG) I guess that at some point (and you seem to know it's soon) we will see. Scott C. Lemon