“Fortune magazine has published a list of its hot IPO tips for
2008. Three out of the five–MySQL, Ingres and SugarCRM–are open
source companies, while another–Parallels–is an open source
project sponsor (for the record, the other Fortune tip is
ExactTarget). Here’s a quick look at Fortune’s assessment of the
four open source-related vendors, together with a quick 451 CAOS
Theory view.“I should probably state for the record that I have no knowledge
of the IPO plans of these companies beyond what is presented below,
and the assessment of their potential is my own…”