This is interesting read on...
Arup
Fw from :www.thestandard.com
> LinuxWorld Crowd Protests Birds of a Feather
>
> Could anything stop the momentum of Linux this week? As LinuxWorld set
> the stage in San Jose, Calif., for the coronation of Red Hat as king
> of the open-source operating system, the press looked for cracks in
> the facade and came up empty.
>
> CBS MarketWatch's Steve Gelsi reported that in its second day of
> trade, Red Hat continued to storm up the charts - up 40 percent, in
> fact, to 72 5/8 on Thursday. Gelsi said it was the sixth most active
> stock on the Nasdaq. Investors were happy. Even the coders seemed to
> be pleased in most news reports, especially those who got in on Red
> Hat's 800,000 invitation shares offered through E-Trade.
>
> But the San Jose Mercury News' Ilan Greenberg found a minor road bump.
> It seems that one vendor at the show, Magic Software Enterprises,
> passed on the usual lure that exhibitors put in their booths (comely
> women who are willing to talk to middle-aged nerds) and opted instead
> for live penguins - penguins, of course, being the Linux totem.
>
> Animal activists, naturally, hated this idea. Some raised their
> concerns, even calling on the protest group, People for the Ethical
> Treatment of Animals.
>
> The vendor said it was expecting this reaction from a minority of
> people at the show. It sent out the animals' trainer, Linda Arnold, to
> talk to the press. Arnold said these are the very same birds who
> backed up Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns," and they're show-business
> professionals. "These birds are extremely well-taken care of,"
> Greenberg quoted Arnold as saying. "If they weren't, they would be
> biting me right now."
>
> Red Hat Stays Red Hot
>
>http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990812/news/current/ipo_rep.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
>
> Penguins Cause Uproar at Linux Expo
> http://www.sjmercury.com/business/top/006053.htm
>
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