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

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (21068)	3/13/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Spartex	Respond to of 42771

Vinod: Why bother with Brainshare, you have just announced you are a NT convert? Just curious, as you say one thing, then want to do another (look over your shoulder) <s>. Quad-KL

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (21068)	3/13/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy	Respond to of 42771

Hi VK, did anyone at Novell ever get ahold of the Canadian firm you were working for? sf

To: vinod Khurana who wrote (21068)	3/13/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Peter Connolly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hi Vinod Can you find out the reasons for your company going for Exchange? I'm curious from the point of view of an ex-Novellian looking around the market and seeing nothing but crp compared to Novell GroupWise. I don't want to seem too agressive, but why was the decision taken to move to Exchange? I'm currently using a Lotus product for email (16 bit for some reason) but I'm getting vibes about moving to Exchange - which I consider a step backwards from GroupWise. I mean how many times have I seen MSFT 'discover' something and put it into one of their products and label it 'new' - Sheesh!!! I hate to say it but I'm starting to feel very* old. There's a whole world of customers out there who know nothing else but MSFT software. They may be the drones of the computer society but there are a lot of them, regardless of what I or anyone else think. I'm not being a total snob, but consider current computer use along the lines of newpapers. I don't read the trashy 'pick it up at the checkout' type of paper, that's not what I'm used to. But there are millions who will. Exchange is a poor second to GrouPWise. GroupWise has a whole world of thought behind it - try using both and then compare. Please. Ask your IS director to pause a while and give this issue some thought, are they knee-jerking or what? I hope I don't have to end up using the MSFT product - history and personal experience has show it's normally second best (at best) if not third-best. If anyone wants to poke fun at GroupWise, I'll gladly enlightlen you from memory. And I'm a Lotus/MSFT user now - I've seen the other side and it sucks - big time! On that note, I've seen Exchange, and It's MSFT. Standards seem to be dropping. Once again, if anyone has a problem with any of my opinions - where were you two weeks ago? Regards Peter