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

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19061)	12/12/1997 3:04:00 AM
From: Lawrence Petkus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hi Scott: Son of Sun? How about a comparison between between Sun Microsystem's new caching product and Novell's fast cache. I'm sure many people would find this comparison much more interesting. By the way, I'm a long time lurker and have appreciated your well informed posts. Thanks, Larry

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19061)	12/12/1997 8:43:00 AM
From: BP Ritchie	Respond to of 42771

Wow! ... Now, I'm starting to see some reason for hope again. Just in case everything is not yet crystal clear to the Novell employees reading this thread ... some 'opinion statements' that might help. This is 'Marketing' ... just about everyone that reads this thread already understands Scott's statement quoted here: >Oh, this is good. For pure acceleration a customer could buy FastCache for $995, and pick up a Pentium based Intel box for under $5000 with 128MB RAM and several GB of disk and beat the pants off this "software and optimized hardware" using easily available commodity hardware. Hopefully people being sucked into these proprietary, and extremely expensive, solutions will start to recognize that the company that drove the LAN revolution is back ... and this time we see a Global Area Network! Scott C. Lemon< What I'm concerned about is that many of the people that will be buying solutions/products today and tomorrow ... have never heard anything like Scott's statement ... nor seen it in print, on TV ... the only thing they've heard about Novell was said by a MSFT sales rep, with the intention of re-directing their money to some source other than Novell. >Hopefully< ... Just isn't good enough! On Scott's previous post to VK ... it looks like he's actually trying to help make a sale! This is WONDERUL ... for most of the last year, whenever I've observed Novell employees confronted with a sales situation that wasn't going well for Novell the response that I noticed was along the lines of .... Oh well, HOPEFULLY someone (else) will notice and save the sale ... but, all of the people at Novell thought that they weren't expected (maybe not allowed) to get involved in making a sale! This is a very welcome change in attitude! I 'hope' (actually demand it, as an owner of the company) that this attitude is infectious ... if I was a senior manager of the company, I think I could insure that this attitude became the norm. The observation that Senior Managers felt they could ignore lost sales, and market share erosion with no concern about their own careers is what upsets me the most about Novell's management! I've been told that's changed now ... I hope that every Novell employee in the world now accepts that making sales is part of their responsibility ... and they cannot 'hopefully' leave the job to 'someone else'! Welcome to the world where 'the bullets are real', Scott ... the treasure is real here too! I hope you get some of it!

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19061)	12/12/1997 9:35:00 AM
From: Mark A. Forte	Respond to of 42771

<<<Hopefully people being sucked into these proprietary, and extremely expensive, solutions will start to recognize that the company that drove the LAN revolution is back ... and this time we see a Global Area Network!>>> Scott is that like what Paul Newman said in the "Hustler" "I'm back"

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19061)	12/12/1997 9:20:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Bordermanager FastCACHE has a real message --- Performance Like Eric I can only hope that Novell marketing will go with some price performance adverts on this product. For $995 you can get a stand alone caching product that boosts the performance of any NT, Netware, or Unix based web server 8 to 10 times in terms of raw server power. What that means is that a small company can put up a web server using 1/10th the amount of capital investment in computer hardware it would otherwise have to make if it remained with the inefficient default caching that comes with a Netscape or MSFT server. Instead of putting the money into more hardware to gain performance it can use the money to advance its business objectives. These savings are enormous. ========================== Incidentally the Novonyx web server uses the Novell technology for its caching, not Netscapes. Buy Novell, you get performance, reliability, and you save money.