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VA Linux Systems opening 10 new offices

Posted by Hemos on from the join-the-revolution dept.

tweek writes "Over at news.com , you can read a story about VA Linux Systems deciding to open offices in 10 other cities. " The story also talks about great revenue growth, and the potential for an up-coming IPO.

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  1. Not to sound greedy, but what about Europe? by rde · · Score: 2

    I appreciate that there are limits to how a company can expand, but I'd love to see a branch in Europe. Anywhere'd do, but Ireland in particular. Actually, there's a huge building operation going on down the road from me, so if anyone from VA is reading this, I can give them directions.

  2. Re:VA and Red Hat by Kit+Cosper · · Score: 2
    As Chris posted yesterday in another thread, VA is not in the distribution business We have our own load (based on Red Hat) that has some kernel tweaks provided by our engineers to optimize performance on our systems. The only way you can get this version of Linux is with a VA system.

    To reiterate more of what Chris said, the choice of Red Hat was not made to the exclusion of other distributions (we have 2 Debian developers on staff whose job is to develop Debian full-time). Red Hat was chosen because we're growing so rapidly that we had to streamline the operations or go insane. (Whether sanity was maintained is a different discussion altogether. :-)


    As more and more things fall into place more options will likely be available.


    --Kit

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    Former Inmate, VA Linux Sanitarium
  3. why? by Suydam · · Score: 2
    Does anyone know what precipitated the new offices? I was wondering (for no real reason): Are they were projecting the need for these offices and spending their capital on them in hopes of sustaining their growth? Or are they already so big that they need this many offices?

    Just wondering. Even Red Hat (who is, for now at least, much bigger) doesn't have offices in that many cities do they?

    Just wondering...

    --


    Werd.
  4. Re:What are the other cities? by Johnathon+Walls · · Score: 3

    The ten cities are: "New York, Toronto, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Irvine/Los Angeles, Orlando, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina" according to LinuxToday. I'm hoping (praying) that they go on a hiring spree in Canada!