[LUAU] RedHat/Fedora
Hawaii Linux Institute
wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Thu Sep 29 10:26:02 PDT 2005
Mid of the night and finally got a chance to browse the web. Suddenly,
a news alert: Red Hat shares up 25% (thus pushing its market cap to
~$3.5B, I believe).
I am sure everyone remembers this: Not too long ago, Red Hat was facing
the reality of the Internet/Linux bubble and decided to abandon their
consumer/desktop versions of Linux as part of their corporate-wide
full-retrench strategy to preserve capital and thus to hopefully
survive. It was our lowly local boy Warren who convinced Red Hat to
recycle their unwanted surplusage into a community project called Fedora.
Now both Novell and Sun are desperately trying to build their own
versions of the Fedora Success (capital "S") model. Personally, I
believe Warren can claim credits for at least 3 of the 3.5B of Red Hat's
total market capitalization, but who's count? :-) Wayne
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