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

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (19470)	1/8/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello vinod, > The NetWare installation process should automatically create the > DOS partition and furthermore detect the hardware in the server and > assign the appropriate drivers. I thought you were familiar with NetWare ... aren't you? NetWare has had the ability to automatically create the necessary partitions for quite some time ... well before IntraNetWare was released. If a person were to read the instructions and simply boot from the included diskette ... > The user should not have to be asked which driver to install. Case > in point...network drivers and sik drivers and CDROM drivers etc, > etc... Auto-detection of LAN and Disk drivers was even further enhanced in IntraNetWare ... > If Windows 95 could perform these tasks two years ago, why is it > taking NOVL so long ? I'm not sure what you are referring to here ... > NetWare has to at some point outgrow its 80's style and move on. It's interesting that I heard someone saying this about Cisco lately. One of their very large customers was asking why the "cheesy" telnet/text based menu interface ... > and are concentrating on the NT platform. That is NT's biggest > advantage. I don't know ... maybe Joe can comment on that article about IBM's focus on Java ... seems that others are betting a lot on non-NT environments. I actually believe that NT will be around for quite some time ... until the applications being used are available in Java, or some alternative version. > No insult against the company or its employees(BOD excepted) but > NOVL has to realize it needs a major overhaul and if it can not do > the job itself, then give it to someone else. No offense taken ... and although you might not feel the same way I believe that I see a lot of that "overhaul" happening and well underway. > Selling the company IMHO is the best option. Sell when you are down? Interesting philosophy. > V.K Scott C. Lemon