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Technology Stocks : Novell looking up -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Costa Kapantais who wrote (261)	7/16/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: MZIP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 288

Hello, Yes you are right.... I have not kept up with Novell over the past few years, because technically there is no reason to.... Over 5 years ago I decided to stay as far away from Novell as possible because of TCP/IP Networking advances... I could have taken classes paid for by my company at the time to get my "CNE" (Novell Union Card). My responce was I might as well take a class on servicing Ford Model A engines as well or braiding buggy whips, because in 10-15 years there won't be a Novell. I was doing credit card transaction hosts on UNIX at the time and connecting Windows 3.51 clients to the network with what was the oringinal tcp/ip sofware... Where did Novell fit into my needs then, nowhere.... To respond to your issues: 1. 75 Million Un-educated Users who belong to the pigeon holed crowd I talked about in my last posting. 2. Is there a reason why I have no knowledge of their products living in a network in a Fortune 50 Company... The answer is I don't need them, this translates to me not buying their product, and them not making any money. (I.E. Stock not in a growth path...) 3. Turnaround CEO????? What is his 5 year plan? I can only Wonder if they would be better suited selling beanie babies over the internet with the growth of internet commerce under the Novell name, maybe it would count for something??? What could NOVELL possibly be providing me to solve my computing needs? Another Web browser maybe or just some network management software like CA-UNICENTER???? 4. My fundamental knowledge of Novell is that their long term success is questionable... They are loosing clients everyday.... It is only time before people running NOVELL servers realize they can load 95/98/NT etc.., connect the cables etc.... Where does NOVELL fit in.... Don't get me wrong I have never liked MSFT... What choice do I have as a computing professional; The UNIX community like the OS2 community allowed Microsoft to take over the world with an inferior product... Kind of like the Beta-VHS story.... The fact is the UNIX community could not even execute on COSE... They still wanted to bicker about Motif and Open Look.... This is where SUN, SGI, DEC, etc.... disappointed the UNIX community... At least SUN realized they needed to become associated with the internet (Java) to make profits easily in the future, or at least raise stock prices.... Maybe NOVELL should be developing a new programming language for the Internet? So Yes my current knowledge of Novell is lacking... What I do know is that I would not invest any of my money in a company having trouble and still sending managers to their little boon-dogle in Maui Hawaii at a high cost Wailea hotel in January.... They should have stayed home and brainstormed about how to make money in the future instead of spending time on the beach talking about how they are milking stock holders.... Sorry for the long winded reply... I hope this gives you a clear idea as to why I would much rather put my money into a company like ATHM then NOVELL.... I bought ATHM in Dec at 18!