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

To: Spartex who wrote (24709)	12/13/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Quad, the Sun/Orcl announcement more specifically targets the Desktop OS and not the Server OS - specially the meat&potatoes network infrastructure OS of NetWare (i.e. NOS). If this announcement actually bears fruit then it would cut into the Windows NT workstation, Win98, future Linux , and Unix desktop OSes. So I would say that NOVL's NetWare5 is the most immune to this announcement since NetWare is exclusively a Server oriented OS. Toy

To: Spartex who wrote (24709)	12/15/1998 3:58:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 42771

I don't know exactly at this point but I don't believe that any ONE system can be your EVERYTHING in a networked environment at this time. Right now we have "specialized" products not mostly by design but merely by their relative strengths and weaknesses. For instance, it's a popular thought that NetWare is more robust at File and Print Services than NT while NT is much better suited for applications. (which is also my own opinion) Oracle's theories are giant leaps from what we currently see today even in their products. I have a friend at Oracle who has tried to explain to me many of the relational ideas for objects and networks they are working on. Maybe I need to listen to him when we're not having a few beers... I think this idea of a "microkernel" is great. An OS should be just what it's always been, software that manages the computer's resources (hardware and software). It doesn't need many fancy gadgets, do-dads and bells. It just needs to work everyday. I know that Novell has always produce something refered to as a runtime version of it's OS. This was for instances where their other products (such as GroupWise)needed to reside on a NetWare server that needed no other services loaded on that server. Sounds similar to this idea...maybe.