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

To: Techplayer who wrote (1210)	9/26/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Niels Larsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

I think those who paid these prices think Redhat will be able to sell most of the future Linux distributions, and get most of the future service contracts. But I believe that wont happen, because anyone can set up their own (maybe local) consulting, since the distribution is freely downloadable and re-distributable. Also, other successful distributions which build on top of Redhat's will appear, example: linux-mandrake.com and Corel's Debian based distribution is coming up, which looks to be more user friendly and with even fewer errors. Plus new ones we dont know yet. Can anyone explain how Redhat could possibly hold on to income that would justify its current value, or even 10% of it? Redhat has done fine work in making distributions, which I have been happy with. They also had a clear policy of not allowing non-free software, where others cared less. Fine company, just investors expectations of it seems crazy.