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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (24680)	12/10/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Peter Connolly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

I've had that problem too - the usual is to wipe the system and reinstall, not a trivial task these days as the software gets fatter. Incidentally, that 1000 day record I was talking about has been bettered. It seems like a scandinavian customer of ours has a NetWare 2.15 server thats been running just over nine years! That has to be the record. The down side of this is that Novell don't get any revenue from this type of customer. I've said it before and I'll say it again, build in a time limit, a la shareware programs. "Your copy of NetWare is too old, and from this point onwards this server shall be experiencing randoms lock ups, strange loss of keyboard errors, and every so often - a spontaneous reboot. Please see your local Novell reseller for a newer copy" Yep, sounds like a revenue generator to me - but I think Novell were beaten to that tactic. :-) I may have the joy of working in Russia soon. It seems that since I'm UK based, and obviously don't have enough countries to cover with UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Finland, Spain and parts of central Europe - we now introduce Russia into the list. In my last job, when we delivered systems to addresses over there, we normally included at least one 'sacrificial' system, in the hope that if that was 'lost' the others might get through relatively unscathed. When your talking about twin PII servers this quickly lost any margin we could hope to gain. Crazy, eh? Regards Peter