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Technology Stocks : Red Hat (RHAT)
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To: Marco Polo who wrote ()6/7/1999 10:05:00 PM
From: Marco Polo  Read Replies (3) of 72
 
Things to remember when pondering this IPO:

1.) Profitibility. Red Hat lost $130,000 selling a free OS last year.
2.) Competition. Fierce. (Solaris, NT, Free BSD, BSDI, etc.)
3.) Copyright. None. (Red Hat merely packages a pretty Linux for the end user.)
4.) Marketing. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft.
(Though Red Hat markets well relative to the Linux world it lives in.)
5.) Compatibility. If you were thinking of Linux as the next consumer OS, think again. (When was the last time you saw an Unreal or Quake game, Linux edition?)
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