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

To: trader14U who wrote (748)	8/23/1999 3:51:00 AM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1794

Even a shorter should be able to figure out the implication of this: chronicle.com "Red Hat - We run the Worlds SuperComputers" Somebody's notes: www-ols.fnal.gov Robert F. Young -- Redhat. =========================== Is a founder and a marketing guy. The technology guys could not come,since Santa Fe is pretty tough to commute to. Commercial code is typically full of spaghetti, since it is not widely read and no one fools with it once it works. Freeware has readers, and people who will re-write code when it not clear. Red Hat went from $3M to $15M this year. 400,000 copies of redhat, may be as little as 10% of the installs. 1000's of mirrors sites... Still the linux market is too small for me to be sure that I will get my kids through college. Source code means control for our users and GPL. This is a benefit over binary OS companies. MAD DOG Hall is the bearded guy from DEC. I think that he is the alpha processor guy. We have 10,000,000 Linux installs because of the CS students. Goal is to make an extreme linux CDROM for $29. Been talking to DIGITAL to do official support for RH Linux. DIGITAL might take on that role for an organization for $$. Red Hat knows that it must not be a bottleneck in spreading LINUX. We would support DIGITAL's support team. FUD at digital right now. Collective Technologies a company which is signing contracts for linux support. 300 support engineers. I do not know if they have any cluster expertise. Steve Bidiet -- AUthorized DIGITAL reseller from New Hampshire -- is at the back is into alpha clusters.... We will be working on this with you guys. The other big name is CYGNUS support. Compilers, but a place you might look to. Would be willing to have a support contract if actual support of the users can funneled through a central support organization, Like the FNAL way. We would be able to sign a support contract. Ready March 7. bob@redhat.com is this guy's e-mail address. We perceive our role to be like an automobile assembly plant, getting components, assembling a definite number of models and stand behind it. - This is why SGI is dumping Cray. What a brilliant buy that was. MH