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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (21884)	5/6/1998 10:15:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Additional Netware versus NT links.......Regards,QuadK Looking for a justification not switch to NT from Novell. If you have not read the Data Comm article here is an excerpt from it. ... Gartner indicates moving from one NOS (network operating system) to another can be almost nine time as expensive as upgrading to a new release of the same NOS. It estimates that shifting a network of 2,500 end-users (on 33 file servers) from Netware 4.x to Netware 4.11 costs $123,645 (about $50 per user). Migrating the same network from Netware to NT costs in the neighborhood of $1,076,140 (roughly $430 per user). ... The link that refered to it in the Data Comm article: data.com Also, check out the time line. This is not Novell PR but Gartner's time line: data.com Link to the front page of Data Communictions Magazine: data.com Link to article "Netware vs. NT" data.com

To: ToySoldier who wrote (21884)	5/7/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42771

Toy: Appreciate your posts..... >>In NetWare 5, this will be fixed. Novell will be leaving MSFT way behind on this one since I dont think MSFT will play catchup on this issue for a long time!>> I commented this morning on the MF board.....(see below) Well in addition to negative comments from two respected NT developers about the severe shortcomings of NTas an enterprise server....I had another long talk with a pro-NT developer who finally - without any prompting on my part - admitted he was indeed becoming more and more impressed with Novell, its technology, new products and future. 6-10 months ago this guy thought Novell was close to being history. Now Novell has won his healthy respect. I regard this individual as one of the very best trading technology developers on Wall Street. His word speaks volumes. He has spoken. Go Novell! Here is my MF post: ================================================== Are we all in agreement that Novell's momemtum is building - daily, weekly, monthly there is a continued track record of upward progress as they define new areas of opportunity while exerting industry leadership, winning awards, getting good press, etc. We also have a major firm in the computer services market buying major quantities of Novell - Computer Sciences Corp. From the way the stock trades its very apparent we have some big dogs buying the stock along with CSC or whomever may be joining the party along with CSC. Why hasn't the stock spiked? Because all those hyped, spiked buyers of yore have already left the train weeks if not months ago. This is a very positive sign. It means Novell is firmly in the grip of powerful interests on the street who want all they can buy at these prices BEFORE average Joe gets and believes the real story. Remember over the past 1-2 years the "average Joes" long Novell were dying with every fading tick lower - hoping and hyping the stock whenever the opportunity presented itself. Now we have a very credible buyer of big quantities of stock and Novell does not spike. This is how it should be. We are heading higher because there are more and more fundamental reasons why Novell is turning the corner. Last night I was in a product strategy meeting with two very accomplished developers - both who work in UNIX and NT environments. One guy is a web developer who's company runs an ISP hosting 14 major cos web pages. Extremely sharp and young. The other guy has 18 years of experience in computer networking. Both shook their heads at their disatisfaction with NT. For the web guy NT crashes at least once a week - taking the entire system down and causing him to reboot, etc. Some data gets lost. "Its getting to be a real pain in the ..." The game now is who will call him first - his beeper that's tied to his other UNIX server which is at least reliable enough to note the NT server is down and pages him. Or his clients. So far his clients are winning. His UNIX box is set to check at 5 min intervals. I suggested he lower the interval to 2-3 minutes. He looked at me with this "why....." expression and said "the damn box should not be going down so much....!" Solution. Have you heard of Novell? A confused look came over his face as if I was talking about VMS or something. I asked is he was aware of BorderManager, NDS, ZEN, Managewise and a host of other recently award winning network service products. This guy will be checking and getting back to me. We are on a project together so I will make sure he "gets it". Novell does need to get out there with some very innovative national TV ads. Something akin to the 1984 Mac. Not anti MS. Just telling the world there is momentum, progress, etc. I liked the ad suggestion I submitted 1-2 weeks ago. Eric, are you reading this board. Is anyone at Novell passing any of what is written along to Eric. To close, all I can recommend is "buy more" now. Novell will soon push into the teens and it will be off to the races. Good Luck!