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To: Ralph Yarro who wrote (21814)	4/28/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: EPS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Ralph, Thanks Again Regards Victor

To: Ralph Yarro who wrote (21814)	4/29/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Concerning Caldera I must apologize for my comments about Noorda a year and one half ago concerning Caldera. It seemed to me then that Caldera was another client hosting OS and that it would compete (as does UNIX) with Netware on the Intel boxes as a host OS for web servers. Now it seems the focus in the market has changed and Novell has changed and is embracing the Internet market with support of commercial web servers. This moves Caldera into a different niche. I suppose you have read what I have read about Corel taking Linux and putting a web browser on top of it and some apps and selling it as a client for the Internet or a corporate intranet. Such a client would be used chiefly for database access something like a netpc. However it would have more usefulness as a standalone as well with the apps. Corel of course talks big and doesn't necessarily perform as big as the talk. Moreover my own experience with Linux is that it needs to be sold with the box---that is with everything integrated---because the customer unless a techie is not about to patch device drivers and rewrite C source code to get his hardware to work. If you sell the customer a working integrated box and it does the job off the shelf, its a different sell. I know Novell isn't much interested in the client end of the network. But I can't help wondering whether Caldera doesn't want to build a better Internet/JAVA client (the client end of JAVA can improve overall JAVA network performance) than Win98? Now that is something to talk to Schmidt about!