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

To: steve wilder who wrote (23319)	8/1/1998 5:33:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Steve: >>AS the tide turns, however, Schmidt has plans that extend far beyond the release of Netware 5. He wants to change the entire face of Networking to one that is the user's face. The direction Novell is headed is one in which the user's desktop is only a configuration and centrally located on a server. It will be possible to project this configuration to any given location at any given time regardless of where you are or when you want it. All your apps, files, settings, wall paper, everything. Novell will provide the software to do it.>>> Thanks Steve. I refer to this whole trend as "going upstream". Schmidt knows that you don't have to break through the dam to initiate this slow but inexorable movement - a revolution, nontheless - toward giving more and more control and flexibility to END USERS. "Going Upstream" is where the entire future of technology is at these days. Right now we are still in the very early, early stages of this trend. All Gates has been able to do is build dams downstream. The downstream game is OVER. All the fish are spawning upstream and, thanks to the internet, java, network services - and soon, but surely Jini - they will find their home, closer to end users. Gates' strategy for going upstream is simply to construct more dams in that direction. He's going to spread himself too thin. >> It will be possible to project this configuration to any given location at any given time regardless of where you are or when you want it. >> This is very exciting stuff. The energy gets taken away from the desktop. It the end user, stupid. Thanks MZIP for your lengthly response. Keep up the contributions. pfriend - I agree "let's change the subject", but that's the path we are on. Good luck!