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

To: dwight vickers who wrote (24146)	11/1/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Gary Ku	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

The possible loss of key personnel and customers is another concern we all have to pay special attention to. Last year MSFT was luring NOVL's key personnel and customers and was not very successful. Why? Eric Schmidt used the Stock options to keep their key their key personnel with the restricting the time for exercising their stock options after Sept. this year. Now, they can exercise their options and can leave any time. MSFT found out this is a good opportunity to lure their key employees. After their key employees left, there is no reason for their customers to stay with NOVL. Senior vice-president Ronald Heinz must perceive this kind of explosive crisis and decided to sell almost all of his shares. Smart investors act before the crisis comes to the surface.