Larry Augustin Interview

Larry Augustin was the subject of a recent news.com interview. Larry touches on issues like hiring important developers, the importance of linux.com, and various other things. He also mentions briefly that the IA-64 port has picked up the pace, and that VA plans to go public in the "near term rather than long term".

Comments

Good business practice

[Jonas �berg]

I think Larry has a very good point in that by doing what's good for the community, the company will in turn become more successful. This is really rather good business practice because a lot of the people who are using the GNU/Linux system today are people who can have an influence when their company will upgrade their servers. So if they remember that VA has done a lot of good for the community, then I'm positive that they will turn to VA for their needs.

As usual, best of luck.

Commercial ?

[Anonymous Coward]

They made quite a point of beeing non-commercial. Thinking about it, i can't remember Microsoft selling advertisements on their site either.. T.

Heh heh heh...

[mrsam]

Larry Augustin on Red Hat:

I think they've had some glitches they've hit around E*Trade. We want to look at that say, is there a way we can do that better?

Oh, my! Looks like E*Trade has stepped in a rather big pile of doo-doo here. Not only they are facing a prospect of having to deal with many potential regulatory complaints to NASD (they can count on at least one from me), looks like they'll also end up paying for it in lost business.

Something tells me that VA Linux is going to keep itself as far away from E*Trade as possible. Good for them. E*Trade has some bad karma about them.

E*Trade's rejections of applications were ground in nothing but arrogance, and they had no factual basis. E*Trade was completely capricious in choosing whose applications they will accept. Looks like they'll have to pay for that arrogance, in more ways than one.
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linux.com

[Squirtle]

Is it just me, or is linux.com boring?

It seems every time I go there it's just like the previous time.

Re:linux.com

[mill]

Good. Then one doesn't have to waste time finding out how to navigate this week.

/mill

Stop with the crappy news, for petes sake.

[Anonymous Coward]

Please.

Re:Stop with the crappy news, for petes sake.

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. This article was lame. Everytime a Linux story is on cnn.com or news.com it gets posted on slashdot. They're not all worth posting. Zzzzz.

Re:You might mention who Larry is???

[TurkishGeek]

Larry Augustin is the CEO of VA. Interestingly, he was a classmate of Yahoo's founders Jerry Yang and David Filo at Stanford; where they approached and asked him to join to start Yahoo. Larry chose to sell Linux workstations.

After approx. 3 years of eating his heart out, he will finally make some big bucks.

Stop with the crappy comments, for pete's sake.

[kmj9907]

Thank you.

kmj
The only reason I keep my ms-dos partition is so I can mount it like the b*tch it is.

Linux Magazine

[Boolean]

This dude has an interview in Linux Magazine, too. Sort of puts down Richard Stallman, too.

Importance of Linux.com?

[mholve]

Hmmmm...

You might mention who Larry is???

[Smack]

Why exactly should I care about an interview with this Larry person if you don't even say who he is? Perhaps it should be mentioned in the blurb that he is the CEO of VA Systems? Maybe some people know these guys by name, but not me.