“At least five companies are developing products based on the
Linux operating system that has galvanized world stock markets in
the past month.”
“And at least one, Rebel.com Inc. plans to go public by next
March. And yesterday’s 24-per-cent drop in Corel Corp.’s share
price is not expected to slow the action….“
“”We’re trying not to get distracted by all the Linux hype,
though it’s hard not to notice what has happened to our
competitors’ stock,” Rebel’s president, Michael Mansfield, said
yesterday. Investors’ demand for stock has exploded for new issues
of companies that compete with Rebel in the server market based on
Linux. Servers are central office computers that handle internal
networks and external traffic to the Internet.”