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

To: EPS who wrote (24505)	11/25/1998 5:11:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

Hello! There are several good things coming down the pipeline including a hook into MSFT's Outlook as the client software for GroupWise using MSFT's own Mail API (MAPI software code). Novell is looking to keep GroupWise users from migrating to the already bundled MSFT Outlook client which uses MS Exchange. By allowing users to keep Outlook and allowing it to be handled by a GroupWise server keeps them a Novell shop with NDS right in the middle of things :) Basically, NOVL knows that MSFT owns the desktop so they will work to make it easier to manage (something of an embrace that Mr. Bill so often likes to say) and maintain. Thus products like ZENWorks 1.1/ManageWise 2.6 are going to make life easier for many IT pros. The next product is code named Magellan and deals with GroupWise component WebPublisher. NOVL is going to make this web tool work with the MS Office 2000 bundle (which included FrontPage) to let MS Office uses easily publish GroupWise documents directly to a website without a webmaster. Of course, look for MSFT to change their software code APIs to rain on NOVL's day....but to quote an article in Network World (Nov. 23, 1998), "MSFT has let it be known that if we (NOVL) do this (release the MS Outlook plug in), they will change MAPI (the software code), but that's OK, we'll be able to change as well." I like that line. Shows NOVL knows how to play ball with MSFT. Peter Strifas PS - the article can be found at nwfusion.com if you can't access this site, let me know - I can get a copy for you!