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[somewhat OT] RHAT wealth monitor




It is somewhat OT, but I think of some amusement/trivia value for this
forum, bent as it is on world domination, and further inspired by
Maddog ;-)

Red Hat (RHAT) did an IPO on Aug 10 at $14 per share. The current
share price is $284 1/8, actually down from yesterday's $290 3/4. The
market capitalization is 19,546.27 million dollars (yes, almost 20
billion). To compare:

Company               Ticker       Market Capitalization 
                                   (in millions USD)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Kodak                 EK            19,370.18
Apple                 AAPL          18,953.71
Xerox                 XRX           16,938,67
Sears                 S             12,496,10
Natl Semiconductor    NSM            8,093.55
Silicon Graphics      SGI            2,090.76
Novell                NOVL           7,348.28

All of these companies are smaller than Red Hat at this moment.
Not too shabby for free software, eh? The road ahead (smirk):

Amazon                AMZN          29,329.01
Compaq                CPQ           44,547.06
Sun                   SUNW         112,521.29
Dell                  DELL         115,793.07
AOL                   AOL          180,795.00
IBM                   IBM          210,228.69
Microsoft             MSFT         479,882.28

There were no sophisticated criteria in compiling the lists.  The
first list consists of household names (prompted by a colleague), the
second list consists of computer industry T-rexes to put things into
prospective.

The above numbers are from Bloomberg. On the 'net, see
http://prosthetic-monkey.com/RHWM/

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | oleg@bfr.co.il
"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out 
unequally at birth." [F. Scott FitzGerald]

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