Newsgroup: it.economia.borsa.estero
Titolo: Red Hat !

Da yahoo finance leggo che il titolo fa il suo debutto (ipo 10/12 $) il 6
p.v., simbolo nasdaq RHAT.
Salvo la notorietą dovuta a linux (del quale non conosco niente, ma gli
esperti dicono essere eccezzzzionale, l'unico vero concorrente a zio Bill)
chi ha > notizie ?
ciao a tutti
cattivik

Salvo la notorietà dovuta a linux (del quale non conosco niente, ma gli
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Da controlli su altre pagine che trattano Initial Public Offering ho trovato
indicazioni contrastanti (addirittura alcuni danno tale azione gią entrata
in aprile...)
Comunque io credo che sarą un buon titolo e cercherņ di accaparrarmene
qualcuna...
Ciao.
Edo

posso chiedere quando sara' quotato alla borsa di NY ?
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L'IPO e' al 9 Agosto ma le azioni da comprare saranno circa il 9% di tutto il
pacchetto
in offerta (le altre sono privilegiate per i dipendenti ed altri)
Quindi ce ne saranno poche.
Auguri a tutti quelli che credono ad un sistema operativo free e anti-Bill Gates
Conrad
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ma se RED HAT offre un sistema free ( anche se dalle potenzialità eccezionali, a
quanto dicono..) dove sono le possibilità di un futuro utile??
Grazie.
Conrad ha scritto:
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Esiste tutta una diatriba interminabile sui sistemi Open Source e se
avranno futuro. Essenzialmente gli utili possono derivare
dall'"assemblare" i vari componenti free, dall' assistenza e
soprattutto dalla marca. Bob Young della Red Hat faceva l'esempio del
ketchup composto da componenti free, ma nel mercato usa il 90% del
Ketchup è di una determinata società (non ricordo il nome). In
definitiva gli utili non derivano dal prodotto in sè, ma da quello che
gira intorno.
Ciao.
Fabio Serra
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...o no???
Si, in parte hai ragione. Io comunque ritengo che nel campo Open
Source un pò di spazio ci sia e le prime che lo occupano per un pò
potranno andare a gonfie vele. Linux lo puoi prendere gratis ovunque
però la gente compra  RHAT per la questione della marca che spiegavo
prima.
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Per sottoscrivere bisognera' aspettare Mercoledi' (da quanto ho capito)
ma per il momento solo con Etrade.
saluti
Conrad
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Red Hat IPO to be the buzz of Linux show
     SUNDAY, AUGUST 08, 1999 1:46 PM
     - Reuters
    By Therese Poletti
    SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - When devotees of the Linux
    operating system gather for another big trade show this week, the
    IPO of the biggest company in this quirky community, Red Hat
    Software Inc., is sure to be the biggest buzz of the show.
    Whether the timing is coincidental or not is unclear, but Red Hat, the
    biggest distributor of the alternative Linux operating system, is
    expected to go public on Wednesday, the second day of LinuxWorld,
    depending on the increasingly rocky stock market conditions and the
    volatile IPO market.
    "I think the deal will go and will work, provided the market is
    supportive of the pricing," said David Menlow of the IPO Financial
    Network based in Millburn, N.J. "It does appear to be the best IPO of
    the week."
    Red Hat has filed to raise at least $60 million, via six million
shares,
    at a price range of $10 to $12 a share, with tech banking stalwart
    Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter.
    Sources expect the deal to be priced Tuesday night, and the stock to
    trade on Wednesday under the symbol RHAT on the NASDAQ.
    Indeed, everyone in the Linux community will be closely watching the
    first public offering of a burgeoning market that has developed around
    an operating system that was developed by Linus Torvalds -- then a
    student programmer in Finland and now an industry celebrity -- and
    given away over the Internet.
    Red Hat, based in Durham, N.C., is the largest distributor of the Linux
    operating system, selling packaged versions of Red Hat Linux on
    CD-ROM discs, in computer stores with manuals. The company also
    provides service and support for Linux users.
    In the past year, Linux has taken the corporate computing world by
    storm, as it made major inroads in the Web server and e-mail server
    markets, displacing Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows NT.
    International Data Corp. said that in 1998, Linux was the fastest
    growing operating system for servers.
    Red Hat's investors include a line-up of technology giants who are
    supporting Linux -- Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ), Dell
    Computer Corp. (NASDAQ:DELL), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC),
    International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) and Novell Inc.
    (NASDAQ:NOVL)
    "We wish them success. It shows the viability of the Linux
    marketplace," said Lonn Johnston, vice president of North American
    Operations at TurboLinux in Brisbane, Calif., a Linux distributor based
    in Asia. "What could be a better example of corporate acceptance
    than selling yourself to the public."
    But Red Hat always seems to incur the wrath of some in the
    closely-knit Linux community, which is made up of thousands of
    far-flung programmers, who hack Linux code in their spare time for
    free, as part of the open source community, or increasingly, for pay at
    a company developing Linux products or supporting the software with
    services.
    And its IPO is no different. Ironically, in an attempt to give back to
the
    programmers who spend their free time or long nights improving
    Linux, Red Hat angered more developers in what many see as a
    botched attempt to include them in an offering limited to friends and
    family to buy the stock pre-IPO.
    Red Hat issued a "personal invitation," in the form of an e-mail,
    inviting hundreds of Linux developers to participate in its public
    offering. Red Hat said the stock distribution would be handled by
    E*Trade Group Inc. (NASDAQ:EGRP) and that the participants had to
    establish an active trading account with E*Trade. A financial
    background questionnaire was required.
    "People were being denied access to the IPO based on the 'eligibility
    criteria,'" C. Scott Ananian, a graduate student at the Laboratory for
    Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
    wrote in a recent article on Salon.com, describing his disappointing
    experience.
    Many other disgruntled Linux programmers complained in postings on
    the 
slashdot.org
 Web site, saying they were refused stock because
    they were novice traders or lacked any assets.
    "Isn't it ridiculous to 'invite' a bunch of Linux geeks to buy Red Hat
if
    only experienced traders are eligible?" read one posting on
    Slashdot.org, a "News for Nerds" Web site.
    E*Trade officials in Menlo Park, Calif., did not return calls seeking
    comment and Red Hat officials refused to comment, citing the IPO
    quiet period.
    "I think Red Hat did what it thought was the best approach," said Art
    Tyde, co-founder of LinuxCare Inc., a San Francisco-based company
    providing Linux support.
    "I think there are better ways to do it," he said, adding that one idea
    would be to give a chunk of stock to an organization devoted to free
    software development.
    ((therese.poletti(at)
reuters.com
, SF Bureau, 
415-677-2542
))
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