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

To: miraje who wrote (19673)	1/17/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 42771

To have once had a de facto monopoly in NOS and still possesing superior products... Their de facto monopoly on DOS networks masked just how shoddy and brutally ugly their proprietary hackware really was. Novell stands as a monument to bad execution, yes, but they also serve as the quintessential example of bad software design. What Novell acheived could have been completed in 10% of the time with 10% of the code and with 1000% more extensibility and flexibility. It is an unabashed pile of dog dirt which locked up file and print sharing on DOS networks early. Fortunately for them, Windows didn't change that situation much.

To: miraje who wrote (19673)	1/17/1998 1:27:00 PM
From: Joe Antol	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

JB. Thanks. And yes, I think ORCL will be dead for awhile. But, not dead in the sense that NOVL is. I think I'll be able to eeek 5 or more points out of it to ~24-26 and then exit a whole helluva lot quicker than my experience with NOVL. I did however (think I made the right decision this week) when I dumped ALL of my DELL (1000 @ 79), and sold it at 93. I can afford to wait on ORCL. CPQ is the one that's on my mind most of all right now. MSFT -- heh, well, .... I just hold it... As I said many times before on SI, I don't like em', but hell, like you say, they make money, and that's what this is all about. Buy the stock, not the company, right? Regards, And good investing to you also... Joe...