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

To: Joe Antol who wrote (19055)	12/11/1997 8:59:00 PM
From: vinod Khurana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Historically speaking, December is a month in which the Santa Clause rally begins and extends into the new year for the new year rally. Only suspicious thing about NOVL is that in down markets it hardly falls and in up markets it actually falls. Inbetween these two events, it rallys a full point only to come back down. Makes me wonder if the big boys use NOVL stock to park their hard earned cash during a turmoil period and spend it on other stocks by selling it in good times. Imagine, when the overall market falls, they buy NOVL but not to push the price up but as a safe haven investment(some what like what is happening in the bond market these days). In good times, they sell the stock and put the proceeds into MSFT, Cisco, ORCL, CPQ, and IBM. Can that explain the behaviour of this no good stock ? Besides the fact that we must convince that NOVL is not just a one product NetWare company, we have got to send the message to Wallstreet that NOVL is not a safe haven for parking their cash and taking advantage of its stable stock price. No siry Bob, NOVL is not to be substituted for Gold. NOVL has its own place in the financial markets and we want to keep it that way. NOVL is NOVL...the mother of all dog stocks. V.K

To: Joe Antol who wrote (19055)	12/11/1997 10:27:00 PM
From: BP Ritchie	Respond to of 42771

Judge rules againts MSFT. The Borg have finally encountered some real resistance! URL: biz.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday December 11, 6:53 pm Eastern Time U.S. Judge bars Microsoft link on software, browser WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge Thursday ruled that Microsoft Corp. [Nasdaq:MSFT - news] must license its dominant Windows 95 operating software to computer makers without requiring them to take its Internet Web browswer. >End of clipping< This just might take some more of their attention away from the market opportunity that Novell seems ready for (finally) and give the Novell Sales Folk an extra few months to make some real money for us! Novell is now actually using the Web for Marketing! ... check this link out: novell.com Or this one: Anyone can download the 45 day trial of BorderManager novell.com Starting to look like they are actually going make some money now.

To: Joe Antol who wrote (19055)	12/11/1997 10:39:00 PM
From: BP Ritchie	Respond to of 42771

Found another interesting MSFT rumour ... DOJ negotiating breakup? URL: Message 2312074 Text of post: To: Sal Habash (12829 ) From: Ed (IT Consultant) Tuesday, Sep 30 1997 1:41AM EST Reply # of 14809 The Justice Department is drafting a proposal to break up Microsoft, and it will be announced before the end of the year! The current draft would have Microsoft spun into 5 different financially independent entities roughly consisting of: 1) Desktop operating systems 2) Desktop software (including internet software) 3) Server operating systems 4) Server software 5) On-line Services The breakup of Microsoft would coincide with a warning about Intel's marketshare and competitive characteristics, but no immediate formal action would be taken on them. They're still ironing out all the details, and there is of course a lot of uncertainty about how this plays out internally at the Justice Department and the White House, but supposedly it looks like a go! Source: Justice Department low-level aide Maybe things are going to get even more interesting soon!