Opsware, Inc. (stock symbol: OPSW)
From the most recent 10-K:
“We are a provider of data center automation software products for enterprises, government agencies and service providers seeking to reduce the cost and improve the quality of their data center operations. Our software automation suite automates data center operations across servers, software, applications and network devices and discovers and tracks assets across the data center environment by automating formerly manual, time-consuming and error-prone tasks such as discovering, provisioning, changing, auditing, patching, reporting, configuring, scaling, securing and recovering of servers, software, business applications and network devices.”
The founder and Chairman of Opsware is Marc Andreessen.
Company website: opsware.com
SEC filings: sec.gov
The company went public as LoudCloud, Inc. on March 9, 2001, long after the implosion of the Internet Bubble. The company raised $150 million through the sale of 25 million shares at $6 per share. The stock started trading at $6.03 per share and closed the day at $6.13. The shares subsequently traded as low as $.35 during the third quarter of the company’s fiscal year ending January 31, 2003 and recently hit an all time high of $10.40 in June 2007.
Opsware, named Loudcloud, Inc. when it went public, has undergone some significant changes since March 2001. When it initially filed an S-1, it was self-described is business as “a new class of Internet infrastructure services, which we deliver using our Opsware automation technology. These services, which we call Smart Cloud services, include those required to provision, deploy, maintain and scale Internet operations. This fully outsourced solution enables our customers to increase or reduce their Internet operations infrastructure capacity as business needs dictate. Our Smart Cloud services enable our customers to benefit from reliable, high-quality and scalable Internet operations without undertaking the difficulty and expense associated with building the required expertise in-house.” |
