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

To: E_K_S who wrote (23313)	7/31/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: Phil Bowden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Eric, Novell has a fairly extensive white paper describing their next generation (code-named Modesto) and its support of Merced. (no mention of UltraSparc III) Here's the url: novell.com

To: E_K_S who wrote (23313)	7/31/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Respond to of 42771

Novell has made a commitment that NetWare will be ready before the public release of Merced. If fact, I believe they made this commitment prior to Intel pushing the release of this new chip. So this would mean that NOVL has lots of slack time to ensure that NetWare x (if I remember the 64bit version will be NW6) will be more than ready before Intel releases their chip. I have not heard any plans for NOVL to release a similar version for the Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, Apache PA-RISC chips, but I would think that it would be a very smart move on NOVL's part if they port NetWare to run on those platforms as well. Not because they need the horsepower, but because of the perception that these platforms mean "Enterprise" "Stability" "Scaleability". This would also be another example of NetWare taking one step further than its biggest competitor - NT. Toy