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Atipa Corporation to Receive $30M Investment

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-places-to-buy-linux-boxes-from dept.

Dave Whitinger, formerly of LinuxToday fame, now from Atipa wrote in to tell us that "Soros Private Equity Partners, TA Associates, and WR Hambrecht + Co. have invested more than $30 million in Atipa Linux Solutions. " Also, if you haven't seen Dave's Linsight service, you should check it out. I've been wanting to hack something like that together for years, but now I don't have to ;)

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  1. Linux.com Has an Article About Dave Whitinger Too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    This article provides an interesting insight into Dave's achievements. --Marius.

  2. So they used to be FreeBSD guys? by auntfloyd · · Score: 3


    I wonder what made them switch? Certainly not all the money to be made in Linux these days, huh? I may well be wrong, but it goes to show what can happen to dedication to a cause when money becomes a factor.

    After all, we don't hear about multi-million dollar FreeBSD company IPOs, do we? Have there been any, anyway? I don't really follow the BSD world (but maybe I should given that I use OpenBSD!)

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    auntfloyd

  3. Wow by cjsnell · · Score: 4

    Back when I was in college at the University of New Mexico, I remember visiting Atipa when it was in a garage-like building behind a house in a scary part of town. We went there to pick up a PC (back before they were big into Linux...they were FreeBSD zealots at the time) and some cholos across the street were throwing up gang signs at us. It was classic. Somehow, my roommate (the guy buying the peecee) knew one of the Atipa guys from back in Texas and they we're supposed to be kind of crazy. We knock on the door, half expecting some guys with 9mm's to open it and shoot us on site. They invite us into the place and my jaw drops. It was the coolest office I'd ever seen. It was, as I said, a building that once held some sort of garage or warehouse. It was kind of dark inside but they had it lit up with torch lamps, which were pretty new and cool at the time. They had a rack with a fractional T1 or something like that and a couple of FreeBSD boxes. We got our pc and left and I remember thinking that it was the most "garage-ish" operation I'd ever seen.

    And now they're getting funded. Times are changing!

    Chris