VA Linux Now VA Software

g2g was among the people who noticed that Slashdot & OSDNs parent, VA Linux Systems has changed its name to VA Software. vasoftware.com is the new domain as I guess they are focusing on SourceForge and OSDN. On the upside, I guess newspapers will stop calling the company 'Linux' all the time.

Comments

Re:VA Bankrupt coming soon!

[gmhowell]

Umm, what stock chart are you looking at?

Looking up LNUX shows that it has a moderate downslope, then being relatively flat since the beginning of September, with a recent moderate rise.

This is not totally unlike the Dow Jones Ind. Avg., which is recovering quite nicely from the Sept. 11th events, and is even making up ground lost since the recession started and the dot-bomb era.

Now, I am not sure that VA is going to do well. But the stock market doesn't agree. At this time, the stock is up ~3%

Re:LNUX - ticker symbol has not changed

[Animats]

Our automated tracking system for failing companies shows that the company has filed a name change with NASDAQ, hasn't changed its ticker symbol, and hasn't made any SEC filings under the new name yet.

A company can request a change of stock symbol, but it's rarely done. More common is what happens in bankruptcy. When a NASDAQ-listed company goes into bankruptcy, its symbol gets a "Q" on the end, as you can see here when At Home Corp. was changed from ATHM to ATHMQ on October 10, 2001.

Re:Sigh

[nebby]

What are you talking about? Lucent was very successful up until about a year and a half ago. The reason they have gone into the shitter right now is not because of lack of identity but because of horrible management (7 web servers to every employee!) and some finanical misreporting.