Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (110)	7/12/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1794

Wow, I used to buy my redhat on Bob Youngs kitchen table. Now he's got 9 mil + shares. Well this is an article on another Linux play at briefing.com. briefing.com:81/scripts/respPowerSearch.asp?bRespSearch=T&TypeOfSearch=TickerSymbol&TickerSymbol=aplx&MonthsBack=ALL&ArchiveTable=AllArchives I've used applix for over three years and it does 100% of what 90% of office users do. But aplx has only 10 mill shares out and is currently profitable. Just created a Linux division and is opening an office suite portal. TOm Watson toiwmee

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (110)	7/15/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Is Red Hat becoming Linux's Microsoft? Hardly. But as the lovey-dovey Linux business matures, elbows are beginning to fly. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Andrew Leonard July 14, 1999 \| The hardcore geeks chuckled when the prizes were passed out near the end of the June Bay Area Linux Users Group meeting. LinuxCare, a fast-growing start-up specializing in support for the Linux-based operating system, was giving away free copies of a perky promotional poster featuring a naked woman guarding her buttocks with a Debian Linux CD-ROM. The point being, of course, that if you choose to purchase LinuxCare support services, you've covered your ass. The poster was a parody of this spring's notorious Simply Palm advertising campaign for the Palm V handheld computer. But the geeks weren't giggling at the naked lady. Instead, they were appreciating a more subtle stab of humor: a LinuxCare dig at Red Hat, the U.S. market leader in packaged Linux distributions. Just three weeks earlier, at the Linux Expo in North Carolina in late May, LinuxCare had earned Red Hat's ire by distributing copies of a similar poster that displayed a Red Hat CD-ROM. Red Hat -- a company that also plans to generate revenue from selling Linux support services -- did not appreciate the humor inherent in its trademark being emblazoned on a risque poster advertising the services of a direct competitor. So Red Hat summoned its lawyers. The posters had to come down...... Now, however, the Linux marketplace is exploding. Red Hat has already filed for a public stock offering, and other Linux companies are sure to follow. Two competing Linux distribution vendors, TurboLinux and S.u.S.E., are aggressively reaching out from their home bases in Asia and Europe into the North American market. Newcomers like LinuxCare, fueled by massive venture capital investment, have rocketed onto the scene. The symptoms of hypergrowth are everywhere: Companies are staffing up, stuffing new hires in every available office nook and cranny, and struggling madly to manage the pain of pell-mell expansion...... salonmagazine.com