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To: Maher Sid-Ahmed who wrote (2329)	3/14/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Ghassan I. Ghandour	Respond to of 5102

Maher, Good post, and that is the way I see it. -G.

To: Maher Sid-Ahmed who wrote (2329)	3/15/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Actually, I was making negative observations (bashing?) Inprise when it was at $10 so at least I'm consistent. In terms of bashing the CEO just because the price is down, look at the stock market, look at the economy, and specifically look at the growth rate of IT over the last 3 or 4 years. Now look at the INPR stock price and ask yourself what the CEO has to do with that. Who do you suggest be bashed? The VSGN principals (they were the company) for leaving Inprise? You know, you're simply an apologist blindly defending the CEO because you're long on Inprise. Hey, fine with me, you're in good company because Inprise management is just feeling around in the dark themselves. As for NOVL and Eric Schmidt, I suggest you look at the state of NOVL at the time he took over. Pay particular attention to the stock price and earnings situation. Eric Schmidt was an EXPERT in network computing having come out of Sun. What you have in Del is an ex-hardware salesmen and his old cronies from an old desktop computer company which was lucky to see the inside of an office building. Sorry, you're wrong. Del Yocam gets the Lion's share of the blame for the dismal performance of INPR over all these years. Novell, man, you could not have picked a more devastating analogy in terms of crushing your own defense. That's what could have happened to INPR if they had talent like Eric Schmidt. Go look at the time frame of that turn-around. Eric was somebody who understood the industry. Del was somebody who could come up with trite names like Infonet while trying to get his arms around the basic notion of IT computing. Then he brings in more hardware salesmen, brilliant. PLEASE READ: novell.com