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

To: Pink Minion who wrote (1056)	9/8/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: Eric Wells	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

>>The main reason this is such a better method of >>developing software is because the code has >>been rewritten so many times. Mshater - thanks for your message. I don't buy this argument as lending strong support to the benefits of Open Source development. This is akin to the "more is better" argument. I know some C and VB developers that can write code better than a 1000 moderately skilled developers ever could. True, 1000 moderately skilled developers might be able to write better code than 1 moderately skilled developer - provided that their development efforts are not hampered by the complications of their working together. As for RHAT's price today - it closed up 8.75. The extreme volatility of this stock is strong evidence to support the notion that RHAT is being used purely as a speculative instrument. You might as well be playing craps (your odds might actually be better). Thanks, -Eric Wells