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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (24753)	12/23/1998 12:55:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

I wasn't suggesting an MSFT merger. Although I think regulation is so dead at the Federal level that practically speaking AOL could buy NOVL and claim they did it to increase competition with MSFT and then bury Netware after a graceful period. MSFT could then dump some money into AOL for some new venture and the FEd would sleep through the whole deal. Just as the Fed is now sleeping through the AOL NSCP deal --- a deal which effectively buries NSCP's browser. ================= Incidentally anybody who thinks that the AT&T monopoly breakup somehow shows that the trend toward monopoly isn't going forward should look at how that 4.5 cent a minute business rate was arrived at --- at the expense of higher local rates for consumers and long distance residential access fees. Moreover the Baby Bells are recreating the AT&T monopoly on a regional level. We still do not have a wide pipe going to the home. IT's an old story Jack.