Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: EPS who wrote (23301)	7/31/1998 8:18:00 AM
From: MZIP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello, I read the article which was kind of a waste of time... I don't have much faith in NOVL's new CEO unless I hear what the plan is for NOVELL... I see NOVL continually loosing hold in the Corporate Network I see it in a 300 billion dollar company everyday... Netscape is on the way out regardless of how it is precieved in Engineering.... It does not matter that MSFT is forcing crap like Active X and Visual Basic on real developers that use Perl and Java..... Why does MSFT not support standards directly.... They do it to just make life easier if you use MSFT products.... Why when you install IIS3.0 do you have all types of problems supporting Netscape browsers... I could go into details... The point is that Netscape & Novell contrary to what everyone here wants to believe are on the way out of the corporate network because MSFT can give us everything we need for Free along with its OS which comes with every PC being built.... They have control of our desktop and applications... This all feeds to the Network and the Internet..... Why are most developers plagued by the differences between the two major browsers on the Internet? Well MSFT with it's aregance and un-fair buisness practices will continue to screw the technical people and fool the computing ingnorance.... I.E. the public.... So given all of the the past history of let's say Databases, Spreadsheets, OS's, etc.... MSFT is on track to leave NOVELL in the dirt.... Everyone would love to throw stones at me... What NOVELL supporters.. I.E. Stock Purchasing public need, is a reason that NOVELL will break the MSFT trend... Why will NOVELL hold it's market share in the corporate Network, it seems to me they are loosing it... Not because MSFT is any better they just control the industry.. Whether you like this or not it is Reality.... I love SGI Irix OS and Sun's variants of UNIX.... Do I buy stock in SGI & Sun, no because the future does not look very good as far as a growth industry... It could be argued that UNIX is still the backbone of the internet etc.... Large sites are mostly still supported by UNIX.... UNIX does not hang and run like MSFT IIS does.... So do you See SGI & SUN as a large growth industry? I'm nervous because I watch SUN after SUN get decommisioned and NT based hosts which don't need any NOVELL products to be integrated into the network... So where to companies like SGI, SUN, and NOVELL fit into the future of the Industry.... I.E. The Internet.... That is the big question.... MZIP Later, MZIP