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Mononcle Bob aime-t-il toujours autant la GPL?

Mononcle Bob aime-t-il toujours autant la GPL?

(...)

Red Hat now has 90 percent of its 630 employees working to lure 
corporations looking to move their computing platform from expensive 
systems running on the rival Unix operating system to Linux, widely 
considered to be the more cost-effective choice.

But it might be the cost-effective part that comes back to haunt Red Hat. 
With the Linux operating system available for free, Red Hat has struggled 
to find a way to secure paying customers. After a year of adjusting the 
focus at Red Hat away from smaller businesses and e-commerce applications, 
the company now needs to prove that it can translate Linux's growing 
popularity into stronger sales.

(...)

Most analysts were disappointed in Red Hat's quarterly numbers reported 
last month. Sales were $18.6 million, down 16 percent from the year-ago 
quarter, and losses were wide. Wall Street reacted, sending the stock down 
nearly 23 percent percent during the past three weeks. Shares closed 
Thursday at $5.22, down 2 cents.

(...)

Meanwhile, the company's top executives have been selling Red Hat shares, 
which doesn't typically boost investor confidence. In late March, Chief 
Executive Officer Matthew Szulik filed to sell 425,000 of his shares after 
filing to sell 600,000 shares in February, according to documents filed 
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Company co-founder and 
Chairman Robert F. Young has unloaded nearly 700,000 shares so far this 
year, part of a plan in which he sells shares automatically on a daily 
basis.

But Tiemann, who said 80 percent of his net worth is in Red Hat stock, said 
it's a matter of portfolio diversification, not a lack of confidence in Red 
Hat. :) Me semble avoir déjà entendu ça. :)


(...)
In fact, the companies who might stand to make the most out of the Linux 
migration are the ones selling the servers that run Linux -- the IBMs, 
Dells and Compaqs of the world. Red Hat, meanwhile, is left to craft a 
business model based on services -- a much less profitable business than 
traditional, non-open-source software.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l

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