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

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (18915)	12/4/1997 4:44:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Vinod: You act as if you are some fountainhead of wisdom and yet you still have to audacity to not respond or clarify your recent wisdom regarind Ford and MCI. With it's anonomity, etc. the online world is the ultimate free speech forum. The bluffers and liers are sniffed out pretty fast and again you are right on the boarder. Care to respond?

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (18915)	12/4/1997 11:08:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Respond to of 42771

<<Hello Jerry, IT managers are fixated to MSFT. Their performance pay is partially based on telling their superiors that they were responsible for the implementation of MSFT products in their organizations...both at the workstation level as well as on the server side.>> Vinod, They had better hurry and spend that performance pay for installing NT Server (if in fact they truly get this "performance pay"). The two paragraphs below I find extremely interesting. First, someone in the press actually has the **nads to SAY Novell is better, and second, it is published in Microsoft Wee.... er, I mean, PC Week ! 9 months ago, who would have thought it! Dvorak must be fully vested in his 401-K ! By John C. Dvorak Intel is in the news again, since the company appears to be getting serious about using symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems as super servers. We're talking about four- to eight-processor Pentium Pro systems designed to compete with high-performance servers. So Intel bought Corollary Inc., which specializes in the design and implementation of SMP chip sets and motherboards. The idea is that Intel and the architects from Corollary will begin to design new boards for the next-generation Intel chip, code-named Deschutes. These will be eight-processor systems, for starters. At the same time, many Intel customers have started to work on designs of their own. The next generation of Intel machines will also target the big iron from IBM, Digital, and Sun. Intel Yber alles! The irony of these systems is the relative sluggishness of operating systems (namely, Windows NT). The buzz at NetWorld+Interop was over gigabit Ethernet: It was all anyone was talking about. Numerous players are in this game, led by Packet Engines: Figure about $1,000 per port to play. Anyway, the sub-buzz at NetWorld was over the fact that Windows NT can't seem to get close to pumping out data fast enough for the new switches. I heard numbers like 150 Mbps to maybe 300 Mbps coming out of a Windows NT-based system. On the other hand, Novell seems to be able to handle the load, and more than a few people claim that it can go full speed. The truth will begin to shake out in the months ahead. It's now clear that gigabit Ethernet is where everyone is headed. jww