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

To: Jim McCormack who wrote (20230)	2/22/1998 10:37:00 PM
From: David O'Berry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Novell is going to answer this call based on the NC push from Oracle and Sun. Just how they are going to do it remains to be seen. I think they are already addressing this space in one respect with the Z.E.N. kit. My problem with Hydra and Citrix is the resource drain we are talking about. The last number I saw for Hydra was 16 MB's and 1/6 of a processor per client. When I did the math it quickly became apparent that a cheap windows PC with its own harddrive and some type of TCO reducing package was about the only way to go on the LAN. Citrix made a lot of money in the OS2 market and in the NT market with the older apps like you are talking about. It definitely is a good solution for remote users and it has some benefits if you have older apps. I do not have any serious experience with Hydra or Citrix so if anyone has some better numbers and info then please post it. I think it is absurdly funny that the whole IT idea machine has come full circle back to a screen scraper type application. It goes to show you that a good concept/product has legs for a long time, even when sexier things temporarily relegate it to the trash heap. That kind of analogy bodes well for Novell as well. David doberry@mindspring.com