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

To: Peter Connolly who wrote (24200)	11/3/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Peter, You mentioned: > The subject of renting applications has come up before - I've yet > to see an effective application of it that would work both in the > US and Europe, where I'm based. One of the big issues over here in > the lack of bandwidth in comparison to the US. Whatever date you > want to set for cheap, high speed internet access to become > available in the US to the masses you can add at least a year to > that for it to happen in Europe. Something that could work when the > time comes is a combination of technologies that Novell already > have, ZENWorks and Replication Services. Modifications to these > could allow highly targeted, time-sensitive deployments of > applications to end users in a secure environment. I'm guessing that you might not be aware of the MT&T solution that is availabe today! These guys from Nova Scotia were part of a technology demonstration at ISPCon ... novell.com Mpowered is a complete solution offered by MT&T that is using their DSL high-speed connections to homes, complete with application rental capabilities built around ... yes ... NetWare, NDS, and Novell's Application Launcher. Users are able to "purchase" rights, through the directory, to applications, games, and other programs ... and Novell's Application Launcher performs the installation automatically. When the rental period ends, the application rights are revoked. It's really an amazing demonstration of the capabilites of NetWare and NDS in a true Internet play ... mtt.ca This is only the beginning of the way software of the future will be distributed. Instead of "buying" applications that you only use a couple of times, you rent the latest version for the time that you need it. Obviously this puts a dent in the Microsoft model of taxing us for yearly updates and upgrades. I have to give the credit to Phillip Kahn though ... not Microsoft. He got this model going with his Turbo- series of application development tools. With more applications becoming "browser-based" and with users wanting more flexibility, the world is going to change even more ... Scott C. Lemon