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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19077)	12/12/1997 9:48:00 PM
From: dwight vickers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Paul, Caught Bill Seidmann (former RTC head, as you know) on CNBC this afternoon. He professed to be very surprised and quite concerned about the hastily thrown together G10/IMF meeting in Germany this weekend about the Asian problem. Maybe Monday the markets will be interesting? Dwight

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (19077)	12/14/1997 3:01:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello Paul, > Bordermanager FastCACHE has a real message --- Performance I agree completely! And it directly translates into savings. "If your ISP is not running FastCACHE ... it could be costing you real CASH!" > Like Eric I can only hope that Novell marketing will go with some > price performance adverts on this product. I agree ... I'm throwing out ideas and suggestions ... from my perspective. > 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. I also agree completely with this. On Friday, after reading some of the press and figures being touted, I decided that we also need to come up with new metrics to indicate to people what they are getting for their money. If you looked at the standard that we have set, you're getting as much as "4 hits per dollar", while the netcache solution is offering ".008 hits per dollar" ... this is a somewhat significant comparison. ;-) (Ok ... so it's a MAJOR comparison!) > These savings are enormous. Yep ... > ========================== > Incidentally the Novonyx web server uses the Novell technology for > its caching, not Netscapes. The Novonyx products are looking very good! They are into Beta (I think) by now ... not too bad for Internet time ... 8 months from start to finish. > Buy Novell, you get performance, reliability, and you save money. ;-) Scott C. Lemon