“Investors may or may not know Linus Torvalds from a penguin,
but they can’t wait to snap up Linux-related stock. After VA
Linux made stock market history yesterday with the biggest
first-day gain ever – giving the company a market value of nearly
$US10 billion – the media rushed in to explain What It All
Means. Depending on what you read, it portends either that
Linux is the future of computing or that investors have abandoned
good sense to jump on the overcrowded open-source bandwagon…”
“Steve Gelsi at CBS MarketWatch reported good Linux PR. “It’s
seen as faster and cheaper than Microsoft’s Windows NT,” said
Gelsi. “VA Linux is certainly capitalising on the belief that Linux
can compete effectively against Microsoft’s widely adopted
offerings.””