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Tuesday October 12 10:00 AM EDT
 VA Linux Goes For IPO Gold
 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet
 VA Linux Systems Inc. was expected to be one of the first Linux companies
to make an IPO move. The only question was when.
 On October 8, VA answered that question with its S-1 filing: soon.
 VA Linux Systems Inc. will try to raise at least as much as $70 million on
NASDAQ. This is, however, only a preliminary figure.
 The company's later SEC filing will reveal exactly how much VA Linux plans
to raise, how many shares will be sold and their
 projected price range. VA Linux' underwriters include such powerhouses as
Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc,
 Hambrecht & Quist and Lehman Brothers. When the stock does enter the
market, probably in November or early December, it
 will trade under the name "LNUX."
 According to its most recent public records, VA had $17.7 million in
revenue during the fiscal year ending July 31, with $14.5
 million in net losses. The company primarily sells via the direct channel
to both individuals and companies. In the future, the newest
 public Linux company is considering moving into the reseller channel.
 Sharing The Shares
 Like Red Hat, VA will be sharing some of its IPO pie with Linux community
developers. This will come in the form of shares
 being help at the IPO for "employees, directors, other persons associated
with us and a number of open source developers who
 have expressed an interest in purchasing common stock in this offering."
Details as to how this will be handled are still
 forthcoming.
 VA Linux' business, unlike that of the most commonly known Linux companies
such as Caldera Systems and Red Hat, isn't based
 on selling a Linux distribution. Instead, VA Linux sells servers and
workstations preconfigured and tuned with Red Hat Linux 6.0
 inside and the KDE desktop as the primary user interface. Besides offering
ready-to-run hardware and software, VA Linux also
 offers several software support options and on-site hardware support.

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 Ha proprio un vero vantaggio competitivo eh?
Fermo restando che non sto facendo il promotore finanziario, siccome mi pare
di notare un tono un tantinello straffottente nella tua risposta, e non
vedendo faccine che me lo confermino, mi limito a segnalarti che RedHat e'
passato da Agosto a settembre scorsi da 40 a 130 US$ (ed ora si e' assestato
a 78).
Sputaci sopra...

 > Il Linux è gratuito per tutti e modificabile da tutti proprio per
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 Red hat è un caso a parte: a mio giudiOk, OK!
In effetti rimangono molti dubbi anche a me, pero' e' anche vero che se
fosse possibile aderire alla IPO, io un pensierino ce lo farei, magari anche
solo a breve termine.
Mi pare evidente una specie di febbre, per ora solo febbricola, che aleggia
nel mondo dell'informatica: Linux.
Tutti ormai vorrebbero provarlo un po' (magari aspettandosi chissa' che
cosa), tanti sono disposti anche a spendere qualcosa per un S.O. gratuito
dopo magari molti anni di uso di un S.O. non gratuito ma piratato.
Che vuoi, gli smanettoni sono fatti cosi'...
;-))
(Scuse accettate, poiche' il fatto non sussiste!)

filosofia!!!!
Ma i dischi con Linux, i manuali e la consulenza costano.
Knuth si e' arricchito mica da ridere (organo a canne nella seconda
casa!) anche mandando in giro gratis il TeX e vendendo manuali.