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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19010)	12/10/1997 4:22:00 PM
From: vinod Khurana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Paul, I agree that overtime, performance issues regarding JAVA apps will improve. That's the beauty of technology...it only gets better. I have sent in my request to NOVL for a beta copy of their NetWare 5.0. Can't wait to get hold of it and try it out on our network. No matter what, I still consider myself one of those NOVL loyalists. Question is, how many more like me are there out there ?....hopefully enough to push this stock thru the roof once and for all. Regardless of my like for NetWare, this company's (which is the 2nd or 3rd largest NetWare shop in Canada) aim is to migrate towards NT. Marketing at Novell Canada has to one way or another entice this company to migrate to NetWare 5.0 if they don't want to see the 400+ odd NetWare 3.11 servers move to NT which is bound to happen by the year 2000 (since there is no Y2K patch available). Novell still has time. I wish they would send me enough NetWare 4.x liceneses so that I can distribute them to the appropriate departments free of charge. Get them hooked to NetWare 4.x and hopefully everything else will follow. I don't mind getting a copy of Managewise either so that we can monitor the servers over the WAN and show the Telecom department that it is just as good as HP's OpenView ?. V.K P.S If this sounds like a plea, it is. I support NOVL and do hope they succeed even though I call this stock the mother of all dogs. After all, that's how it has been behaving over the last three years.

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19010)	12/10/1997 6:54:00 PM
From: David A. Lethe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

>JAVA machines are no different. Novell certainly has the engineering and the leadership. Come on Paul, we both know that Java is very different. You are misleading people on this thread. Those examples of how efficient and fast 8088s are, and how they supported 4 users are irrelevant.... Their code was compiled, not interpreted. Their code could talk directly to the hardware, registers, device drivers. Their code could control and disable interrupts when necessary. Their code could even read and write to anywhere on the disk drive. Their code was optimized for the hardware platform. Their code could take advantage of shared O/S run-time libraries, shared memory, and could control disk caching and buffering. You can't do any of the above with Java. (Yes there are some "compilers" out there, but the advantages are minimal).