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VA Linux set for flotation
News VA Linux will use the IPO proceeds to fund operating expenses, including broadening its professional services organization, hiring more research and development staff, and expanding sales into Europe.
[December 9, 1999, 14:31]
Linux love: VA Linux buys Andover.net
News Andover.net, which went public Dec.just a day before VA Linux's record IPO, peaked at 90. Here's how officials detailed the deal on a conference call: Based on VA Linux's closing price of 137 Wednesday, Andover.net shareholders would get $3.81...
[February 3, 2000, 13:00]
The Day Ahead: VA Linux delivers, diversifies revenue base
News First-day IPO hype aside, VA Linux is delivering on exactly what it said it would do -- boost margins, post eye-popping revenue growth and diversify its revenue base. VA Linux, which offers open source Linux systems and services, was put in a...
[August 24, 2000, 12:15]
The Day Ahead: Caldera preps IPO as Linux hype fades
News VA Linux set a first day IPO record, so Caldera could also hit the jackpot. Caldera got a lot of attention in January when it filed for an IPO in the midst of the Linux gold rush. According to the Linux IPO two months ago, Caldera's price range...
[March 16, 2000, 12:22]
Markets fall in love with Linux
News Ever since Red Hat, a seller of Linux software, went public and rocketed skyward, investors have eagerly anticipated the growth of a hot new IPO sector. Echoes IPO analyst Tom Taulli, "This is definitely a big Linux week.
[December 7, 1999, 13:21]
Linux IPOs: Is Caldera next in line?
News According to various published reports, Linux hardware and services vendor VA Linux Systems is contemplating a similar IPO move. Red Hat, as the most successful Linux distributor, has faced the most heat even before the IPO announcement.
[June 9, 1999, 9:51]
Red Hat closes trio of offices, lays off 20
News VA Linux Systems closed Monday at $8.72, after an IPO at $30. Red Hat, the first Linux company to go public, was the last independent company to see its stock sink below its IPO price. Caldera Systems is even farther underwater, with a stock price...
[December 5, 2000, 9:28]
The Day Ahead: Tech volatility clamps down on buzzword abuse
News V-One shares surged around the same time VA Linux set the IPO record. Sina.com, a Chinese Internet portal, is trading above its IPO price of $17 (£11), but not by much. Portal wannabe AsiaContent.com is well below an IPO price of $14.
[May 5, 2000, 12:10]
The Day Ahead: Summer siesta for IPOs
News Of course, VA Linux shares still have a hangover from the company's record topping IPO. As for the rest of August, the IPO calendar is basically empty -- must be that herd of investment bankers and Wall Street types stampeding to the exits.
[August 21, 2000, 11:59]
Eric Raymond: How I'll spend my millions
News Having lived his technology life in public, Raymond isn't going to let a sudden jump in his net worth, due to $36m (£22m) worth of VA Linux in his stock portfolio as result of the Linux hardware vendor's IPO on Thursday, change his ways.
[December 13, 1999, 10:32]
TurboLinux to go public in 2000
News In a week in which Red Hat's stock price continued to go through the roof and Linux hardware vendor VA Linux prepared for its sure-to-be-hot IPO, TurboLinux began hinting about its plans to go public sometime next year.
[December 9, 1999, 14:47]
LinuxWorld Expo Roundup
News Linux love: VA Linux buys Andover.net Andover.net's 25-day IPO quiet period was barely over before the company was acquired. But the VA Linux chief had precious little to say about his company's Andover.Net/Slashdot deal.
[February 1, 2000, 14:06]
Red Hat misses estimates -- splits stock
News VA Linux set the record for first day IPO gains. Other Linux-related offerings such as VA Linux, Cobalt Networks, Andover.net have performed well. In a statement, Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat said the revenue growth was attributed to demand for...
[December 20, 1999, 13:33]
The Day Ahead: What happens when analysts stop cheering
News Once VA Linux took the IPO title last year Theglobe.com became a footnote. The first two analysts interested in Theglobe.com happened to work for the two firms (Bear Stearns and the former Volpe Brown Whelan) that were the IPO underwriters.
[August 4, 2000, 13:39]
KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Talkback We saw that belief evaporate in the internet bubble of 1999 after the record-setting IPO of VA Linux. If the user has been quite pleased with OpenSource software and has many packages installed on their current system, they might just decide to...
[February 9, 2005, 16:59]
Ouch! TurboLinux hit with layoffs
News Up-and-coming Linux services company LinuxCare was forced to scrap its IPO plans, leaving the company in disarray. Companies, ranging from Red Hat to VA Linux have seen their stock prices fall through the floor in the past month.
[June 1, 2000, 8:46]
Momentum trading cuts both ways
News That's a big statement from a guy who became a paper billionaire in the largest one-day IPO run-up. There's obviously a mix of people who trade on the market: Some people who trade off whatever's hot, and some people who trade on the longer term...
[January 10, 2000, 11:44]
The unexpected Linux IPO
News The smart money had been expecting VA Research to be the first Linux company to follow Red Hat into an IPO. Cobalt Networks, a maker of file and Internet server applications, will be the next Linux IPO.
[September 10, 1999, 11:53]
Caldera jumps on Linux IPO bandwagon
News American Linux distributor, Caldera is taking advantage of the current stock-market frenzy for anything Linux by filing for its initial public offering (IPO). Red Hat started the trend in Linux stock when it issued its IPO in August of last year.
[January 11, 2000, 16:21]
Caldera IPO launch
News Hungry for another Linux IPO? Based on the history of previous Linux IPOs, that number could double days before the actual IPO. Like the Linux companies before it, Caldera is offering stock options at IPO prices for "friends and family", or, in...
[March 2, 2000, 14:01]
