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

To: Pluvia who wrote (958)	9/8/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: Eric Sandeen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Pluvia - Don't know where you got the "10-15% of the Linux market belongs to Linux" figure, but that aint even close to being true in the US. I'll have to cede that one - Linux has at least 100% of the Linux market in the US. Just in case that's not what you meant to say, here are some links to market studies on Linux. Linux shows 25% annual growth rate zdnet.com "IDC recently reported Linux garnering 17% of the server OS market in 1998 with growth for the year of 212 percent." Linux boosts server OS market news.com "In operating system growth, Linux shipments leapt 212.5 percent from 1997 to 1998, a major component of the 25 percent overall server operating system growth. With Linux taken out of the equation, the server operating system market would have grown only 11 percent, IDC said." Sizing the Linux market (written by Bob Young, so take as many grains of salt as you'd like, but look at the references) 207.178.22.52 Sorry to burst your bubble... Look, information is useful. Blustering about "crappy companies ready for a fall" is useless. Do I think RHAT is overvalued? Yes, probably. Do I think that calling it "RAT" has any value on this board? Not at all.