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

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (22418)	6/2/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 42771

Scott, look up the Intelgis web site or check New York Times June 1st energy supplement. From what I understand of your system, you already access the X10 control system remotely over the web? If that is true then imagine the next step as being that the JAVA language substitutes for the proprietary appliance control languages used by HOneywell, T/A, or X10. Power control engineering unifies on JAVA as a standard for their control boxes. The next step is for the appliances to dispense with the control box and have the JAVA controls built in. These are then acccessible not over a separate wiring system but through the power line itself. Now the appliances respond directly to JAVA commands and do not each have to be separately wired (and connected to control boxes) So currently you might have to write something in a script language like Unit1 equals Type Boiler. Unit2 equals Type TSensor. Unit3 equals Type TSensor. Begin Loop: Sample Unit2 as X1. Sample Unit3 as X2. If X1 < 60 and X2 < 40 then Set Unit1 On else Set Unit1 OFF. Endloop. You would have to rewrite this for every companies proprietary scripting language. You would rewrite this in JAVA once. All appliances would understand the JAVA without needing the control box. Now here comes the part for Novell ---- the server and the home based server. The home based server controls the appliances and connects through the neighborhood power line to the web. The most obvious immediate application is meter reading followed by selling both home based and untility company based servers. You ought to contact your new VP just hired from SUNW and find out what Nortel is doing. Sounds to me like this could be a next generation low end product for Novell. I've got a lot of ideas for what ought to sit in the home on this "home server". Shall we start a new company?