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

To: Wallace Rivers who wrote (25878)	3/8/1999 8:22:00 AM
From: KM	Respond to of 42771

So far, a 50k block sold at 20 3/32 and a 55k block bought at 23 1/4 Looks like if you want to buy now, you have to pay 23 plus.

To: Wallace Rivers who wrote (25878)	3/8/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Novell to Revise a Key Technology In Its NetWare Operating System By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter PROVO, Utah -- Novell Inc. Monday is announcing a major revision of a communications technology that is central to its competition with Microsoft Corp. The software company is announcing a new version of its directory technology, which allows corporations to identify and manage access to the different machines and users on far-flung computer networks. The directory is a key element of its NetWare operating system, which competes with Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. Novell's new version is called Scalable Directory Services. The company's current directory can manage about eight million computers or other objects on a network; the new version is expected to manage hundreds of millions of users, people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft's competing technology, called Active Directory, is believed to manage about 10 million users. Microsoft is planning more powerful directory technology in the follow-on to Windows NT, known as Windows 2000, which is expected to be shipped later this year. A Novell spokesman declined to discuss details until a briefing scheduled for Monday. Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive, described the directory generally in an interview last week, calling it a "true technology breakthrough."