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

To: Adrian Slade who wrote (18902)	12/4/1997 12:17:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello all negative investors. Apparently we're drawing lines now, so I though I'd say hello. sf

To: Adrian Slade who wrote (18902)	12/4/1997 8:39:00 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hi Adrian, As a negative investor who at one time had a 6 figure investment in your company I'd like to point out that the input of Novell employees on this thread has a documentable history of offering nothing more than a false sense of security to investors. I have no doubt that Novell has the best products. The problem is that no one in your organization could sell $100 bills to a crack head for 5 bucks each, while Microsoft could sell $5 bills to a street wise pimp for 10 and make him feel like he got a good deal. I've seen a Novell presentation and I can just about guess what your people will be doing for the next six months. Everytime you get a little group of people together that are interested in buying Net Ware, you'll tell them that something better is just around the corner, and wonder why they walk across the street and buy NT. This isn't about owning puts. It's about 8 months of pent up frustration and countless hours of posting messages about marketing, and sending e-mail to Schmidt and Slitz. Nothing has changed. Novell will always have something better someday and that is what you tell your potential customers. They go to Microsoft that is perfectly happy to tell them they have something better now and they buy. I'll stop now, because this sort of thing is starting to bug Joe (as well as a few others, no doubt) and I'd rather not do that. I won't even consider a long position again until Novell can show me they have figured out how to sell and market their products. Unless you are in marketing or management this is not directed at you but feel free to pass it along to anyone that is. Regards, Don