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VA Linux Now VA Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the remember-when-this-was-a-linux-company dept.

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.

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  1. VA Linux wanted to be called LINUX by jake_telco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    VA Linux was riding the wave.

    Why take the NASDAQ symbol LNUX if you don't want to be known as Linux?

  2. Huh? by ArtDent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the press release:

    VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNUX) announced at its annual meeting today that shareholders voted to change the Company's name to "VA Software Corporation."

    Are they planning on changing their ticker symbol or do they enjoy the contradiction of it all?

  3. May be a chance for open source by DOsinga · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the next step after the stockmarket crash of Linux shares. System integrators will no longer be *Linux* system integrators. VA will concentrate on software, not specifically on Linux software.
    On the upside, it might make people see Open Source as something not necessarily Linux, but as a serious way of developing software. Open Source is more then Linux.

  4. similar to dropping ".com" from Company Names by dgb2n · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After the failure of so many .com companies, the last thing a company wanted in its name was .com . It became synonymous with a poorly thought out business model and imminent bankruptcy.

    I'm afraid that this will be a similar trend. The Wall Street love affair with Linux is over. No longer can a company put Linux in its name and demand large sums of venture capital. VA wants to decouple itself from what it perceives as a sinking ship, the "Linux trend".

    Notice that I decouple this from the technical merits of the operating system. To argue that Linux-based business models have proven difficult to establish profits is not the same thing as to undermine the Linux operating system.

    I love the operating system but don't think many of the current "Linux companies" have viable business models. I favor the IBM approach. They are embracing Linux under their established IT services business.