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

To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (25580)	2/24/1999 5:59:00 PM
From: fb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

I agree with you. And, I would never count out MFST on anything, because whether we all like it or not, they always come to play. I think what I found/find increasingly interesting is that more and more people are saying more and more negative things about MFST. This was practically unheard of only a short while back. Tells me that "mindshare" (may) be changing, albeit slowly. NOVL (could) do something about this if they would get off their dead ASS and play offensive HARDBALL with their advertising. Their merchandising (lack of) just kills me! I remember three years ago when I first bought this stock to go into my retirement account I was a State Farm agent. When the stock started south I called & got in touch with the #1 decision maker at State Farm to find out how secure NOVL was with SF. (To give you some idea of how big SF is in computers, I had an insured many years ago who was a commercial executive with IBM inform me that at that time SF was IBM's largest private account and the 2nd largest account over-all, the U.S. Govt being IBM's largest) So naturally I was impressed to find out that SF & NOVL were doing great together. But my contact was becomming increasingly frustrated with NOVL because the "young turks" scattered around the U.S. & Canada were making life difficult for him because they were being BOMBARDED by MFST FUD and legitimate MERCHANDISING. In other words, he was having to do NOVL's work FOR them. If NOVL had been doing what THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING in terms of advertising & merchandising then MFST could'nt have been making the inroads against NOVL that they were making! @@##!!**!! Forgive the length of this post, but as you can see, my frustration level with NOVL's soft cotton-ball approach to competition is VERY HIGH today!! :-) Best regards, fb