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

To: Eric Sandeen who wrote (688)	8/17/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Doug B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Does anyone know if Red Hat plans to do any contract programming for Linux? Yes. _Exactly_. Red Hat could even subsequently release something like this under the GPL They would _have_ to if any GPL code was used in it, and it almost certainly would be, or Red Hat wouldn't touch it.

To: Eric Sandeen who wrote (688)	8/17/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Respond to of 1794

Does anyone know if Red Hat plans to do any contract programming for Linux? Seems like that would be an interesting source of revenue, beyond the service / support / shrink wrap plan... Who knows where RedHat is going, but I don't think they are doing that sort of thing now. The company that is doing that sort of thing is Cygnus (soon to be renamed to something else). Among recent contracts, they've been hired by Intel to port the GNU C compiler to Merced/IA-64. They are a candidate for going public in the next year or so. They are at cygnus.com