Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

VA Research Gets New Investors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the two-scoops-of-veecee dept.

fremen writes "Yahoo has an article about VA Research starting a new round of fund raising. It mentions that it has gained funding from SGI among other companies. "

3 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. SGI? by ilkahn · · Score: 2

    Hm... I think that sgi should attempt posting a couple of quarters in the black before it starts spending it's capital in untested ventures...

  2. Go, team by rechsmjr · · Score: 2

    FWIW, VA has kicked a** helping us spec out a major project recently -- they had a custom-configured eval unit in our hands in less time than it took Dell to answer some basic questions about theirs. They get it, bigtime.

    1. Re:Go, team by MarkX · · Score: 2

      I would agree with this sentiment. We just got 2 servers, P II Xeon, 1GB RAM, 63 GB RAID 5, for our new web site and VA Linux was the fastest to the punch. The servers were delivered exactly as ordered. (It was a fairly complex setup with RAID, fail over, and other stuff.) And they completed the spec of the systems in 3 hours and delivered them in 5 days including shipping.

      The fact that they were able to deliver such a high level system so fast was absolutely amazing. I've dealt with Sun, Dell, Compaq, and a lot of others and VA Linux is the best hands down.