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

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (27075)	5/31/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Internet Speed...... >>Yes yes yes!!! Novell's horrendous marketing starts at the top...I hope Eric sees that and I think he will take action to fix it!>> Whatever the problem, Novell needs to exhibit a white-hot "out there" sense of energy, mission, vision, belief, understanding, awareness in a massive, expansive, viral, growing, surging, open kind of way...... Shed, blow out of any kind of corporate/political mindset. All that stuff is baggage - HISTORY!!! What I think, "we think" doesn't matter anymore. It's WHAT THE END USER THINKS! Call this mindshare, energyshare, vision or whatever. Novell is losing grip of this vital edge that put them where in late February-early March. They were about to blow the doors off the walls of the traditional understanding for what Internet technology is all about. Now that I've had time to mull this over, Directory-Centric computing is NOT a quiet revolution. Embracing this means that you understand that the power of this trend rests squarely with INDIVIDUALS - not coporate peacock feather account contacts. Embracing this means that you have to have the balls to say "bye-bye" to Netware, Unix, NT or whatever. Embracing this means your understand this massive unbundling force of energy will change everything you touch. As far as Novell politics go, NDS may be the hair on the tail that wags the dog. Perhaps this is why the energy behind NDS has been shelved. To the old guard, it's a political lightning rod. Better to leave it as a hair on the tail than really get behind a consumer app like DigitalMe that could virally spread a web that threatens change along many other fronts. Microsoft is becoming more aggressive with it's investments. The time is NOW. Take the gloves off this thing. Are you ready Eric? GO!!