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

To: ToySoldier who wrote (24516)	11/25/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Matt Webster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

What do you all think of Novell's relentless selling of Corel in October of this year? They sold Corel at a price of about $2 every day of the month! What was the point of raising that $2 million in cash? Is Corel that dead? I ask because I am interested in buying Corel for its Linux exposure plus its recent deal with Gateway. BTW, I am long NOVL and expect a move to 24. Matt

To: ToySoldier who wrote (24516)	11/25/1998 5:13:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

Hello! Just to add some more news to the fray... Novell tool clones NetWare 5.0 servers NOS vendor posts a new accelerated upgrade utility on its Web site. By Christine Burns Network World, 11/23/98 Novell late last week quietly posted on its Web site a new utility for accelerating the pace of enterprisewide deployments of NetWare 5.0 servers. The Accelerated Upgrade Utility is a free text-based tool that basically takes a snap-shot of any fully configured NetWare 5.0 server. The tool then pushes that default server image - which comprises server configuration data and all upgraded code - out over the network to any number of target servers. Novell originally developed the tool for internal use. Chief Information Officer Sheri Anderson says her IT staff earlier this year asked Novell engineers to build such a utility. IT needed to roll out multiple builds of the NetWare 5.0 beta code to each of the company's 500 servers worldwide. "If you have a large shop, this will significantly cut down on the time and money you'll spend upgrading to NetWare 5.0," Anderson says. "This tool lets you concentrate your efforts on configuring one server really well instead of spending the minimal time getting a hundred up and running." The county government of Hillsboro, Fla., is planning to upgrade its 55 NetWare 4.X servers to NetWare 5.0 early next year. "So much of your time during any NetWare rollout is spent getting each server configured just the way you want it. It can drive you crazy," says county IT manager Bill Kanneberg. "Any tool that cuts down on us having to do that to every server individually would help immensely." The new tool will distribute the cloned NetWare image to servers that are brand new or that need to be upgraded to NetWare 5.0. Novell product manager Brian Faustyn says the tool can also be used to upgrade earlier 4.X servers to NetWare 4.11. The Accelerated Upgrade Utility is available now from Novell's Web site at www. novell.com/download.