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

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (26762)	4/26/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Peter, Does Sun's I-Planet have anything to do at all with NDS?

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (26762)	4/26/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: Bryan C. Simpson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

I have seen a shift back to Novell. I install a MRP system in small manufacturing environments. It's called Visual Manufacturing. Anyway, over the past 8 months I have done 7 installations a month. My territory is 8 western states and 3 canadian provinces. 20% of the US installs were Novell. 80% of the canadian were Novell. I have seen the trend increasing in the states. What used to be 20% is now about 50%. Even in the Seattle area. People are tired of having to come into every customer, once a month to fix the problems that have been logged on their NT servers. More and of these 1 and 2 server installations are going back to Novell, because they can install it and it will run for a year without having to do any real maintenance. One of the interesting things I have noticed is that the MRP system run faster on Novell than is does on NT. The MRP system runs on top of a Database. Usually Centura's SQLbase, or Oracle. ZEN works is also making a difference. Rolling out clients for the MRP system is so much easier with ZEN works. Having nothing to do with Novell, other than the application I install and support, I was moved by what I have seen to the point that I have invested a little of my hard earned money. My 2 cents....Bryan