NewsForge: Analysis: Will Lindows IPO Start the Pendulum Swinging Back for IT?

"A recent news item: Lindows, Inc. announces that it wants to make an initial public offering (IPO) of its stock on NASDAQ. Might this signal the end of the four-year slump in IPOs that's still dogging the IT industry?

"You have to go way back into the dark ages--in Internet time, of course--to find the last time a Linux company actually went public. It was VA Linux Systems (now VA Software, the parent company of the Open Source Development Network, of which NewsForge is a part) in late 2000..."

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