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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:06:38 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- Message-ID: <1hqekuINNm2f@chnews.intel.com>
- References: <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu> <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> <id.RO3W.PE3@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.RO3W.PE3@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <1h7tsjINNc62@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- >> a business-computing thrust that the system has lacked since the epoch;
- >
- >Higher prices (priced Netware lately?).
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- Maybe lower prices for lessened functionality.
-
- Under Novell, USL is likely to tailor and clean the system
- for smaller platforms.
-
- >> Anyone know the valuations of USL (book, annual earnings,
- >> etc)? The putative price was $360Mil,
- >
- >Sounds like a bargain to me.
-
- Sounded like a ripoff to most Novell stockholders, though.
- The stock tanked. It's now back up; way up. Looks like
- you and I know more than they do.
-
- --Blair
- "Deeds not words."
-