“Kleiner Perkins, CMEA Ventures, the Sand Hill Group… and
angel investors have invested a first-round funding in Linuxcare, a
San Francisco-based Linux startup.”
“Stacey Quandt, an analyst with the Giga Information Group,
comments, “As far as services and support, Linuxcare has really
developed a niche market for itself.”
“According to Steve Kleynhans, vice president of the Meta
Group’s work group on computing strategies, there is a lot of hype
in the market…”
“The bottom line, according to the analyst? “We don’t foresee
Linux having any impact on Microsoft in the next two to three
years.”