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To: Marco Polo who wrote (5)	6/7/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Marco Polo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 72

Also at issue, the price of the IPO. Red Hat wants $96 million, that's quite a lot for a company with sales of $10.8 million. Even taking into account the current Linux euphoria wave!

To: Marco Polo who wrote (5)	6/8/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: $Mogul	Respond to of 72

Is this what you mean. I Copied this from your post 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?)