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

To: Villemure who wrote (25516)	2/18/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

It turns out costing more per user than NetWare, which usually serves three to four times as many users from the same box. The people over at the Apple forum made that same argument all the way down from 20% market share to 5%. For some reason users simply do not care. The temptation to follow the path of less resistance is too strong. You are betting your money that the average user will be technically sophisticated enough to see the difference between NT and Novell. Secondly, you overestimate the importance of the blue screen of death. Lastly, M$ has always been able to come back from severe problems. You can read plenty of articles about release problems of WinNT 4.0, Win95 and Win98 and how that created tremendous opportunity for competitors. In each of these cases some publication would have an early item where they would quote a CIO saying that they would "hold" on the transition to WinXX (just like the one recently posted here about Win200 beta 2). You know the end of the story in each of these cases.