Re: [LUAU] VC and Linux
Hi Wayne, You must be talking about Verizon right? Verifone has no ties to Hawaii. They are the world's largest telecom with stakes in several European countries, South America and in Japan. I don't even think Verifone has any kind of market in the US. There are a few companies that are receiving attention within the VC field. Mainly with biotechnology. Two companies that are doing well are Hoku Scientific and Hawaii Biotech. There are others as well. Virgil On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: BTW, most participants in this forum are probably too young or too new to have heard the story about Verifone. This is the biggest IP success story in Hawaii. Verifone grew too big and had to be sold to a mainland company for something like 9-digit figure. I know some of the founders of Verifone, many of them still live on the island and many are still actively pursuing VC activities. Several of them invested in a company called Aquasearch, which makes microalgae and got into a very nasty patent fight with its next door neighbor, Cyantech. Eventually Aquasearch filed for bankruptcy, and Cyantech did not fare too well, either. Both companies had great technologies and are in one of the most promissing markets, but they had to try to fight each other to death. Anyway, I know getting a decent paycheck is priority No. 1, but if we ourselves can't think too much about the VC business, we sure hope someone else on the islands will make it, and make it big. wayne ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] VC and Linux
Nope, he meant Verifone. -Matt - Original Message - From: Virgil Vergara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list luau@lists.hosef.org Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [LUAU] VC and Linux Hi Wayne, You must be talking about Verizon right? Verifone has no ties to Hawaii. They are the world's largest telecom with stakes in several European countries, South America and in Japan. I don't even think Verifone has any kind of market in the US. There are a few companies that are receiving attention within the VC field. Mainly with biotechnology. Two companies that are doing well are Hoku Scientific and Hawaii Biotech. There are others as well. Virgil On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: BTW, most participants in this forum are probably too young or too new to have heard the story about Verifone. This is the biggest IP success story in Hawaii. Verifone grew too big and had to be sold to a mainland company for something like 9-digit figure. I know some of the founders of Verifone, many of them still live on the island and many are still actively pursuing VC activities. Several of them invested in a company called Aquasearch, which makes microalgae and got into a very nasty patent fight with its next door neighbor, Cyantech. Eventually Aquasearch filed for bankruptcy, and Cyantech did not fare too well, either. Both companies had great technologies and are in one of the most promissing markets, but they had to try to fight each other to death. Anyway, I know getting a decent paycheck is priority No. 1, but if we ourselves can't think too much about the VC business, we sure hope someone else on the islands will make it, and make it big. wayne ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] VC and Linux
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Virgil Vergara wrote: You must be talking about Verizon right? Verifone has no ties to Hawaii. They are the world's largest telecom with stakes in several European countries, South America and in Japan. I don't even think Verifone has any kind of market in the US. My ex-husband was Verifone employee #25. Joined up when they were still a smallish company operating out of the First Insurance building kitty-korner from the Art Academy. Then they moved out to Mililani Hi-Tech Park and finally to the Bay Area. -- Karen Lofstrom
Re: [LUAU] apt RPM
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:34:48PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: With regard to yum headers, I have always been thinking about the idea of making a tarball of all the downloaded headers/rpms once you have done your first update, then copy and untar the tarball to a new machine to save time. But since I don't have too many machines, this idea never sees the light. wayne Well, if you do no want to mirror the entire repository, you can setup a caching proxy server, point all your systems there, and be done with it. -Vince
Re: [LUAU] VC and Linux
Virgil Vergara wrote: My apologizes to everyone especially to Wayne. You all are right about Verifone. Virgil Your reply has made an otherwise boring thread interesting (and inspirational), and I am sure a lot of our members appreciate your comment. I am affiliated with a VC group, which, during the bubble days, was capable of financing up to $100M to buy companies with established sales channels. Under our current conditions, it is almost impossible to try to bring tech VC money to Hawaii. What we can hope to do, I think, is to collectively and unselfishly build a huge Linux infrastructure (I mean huge), and hope that someday someone will be able to take advantage of this infrastructure for profitable ventures. Of course, this is just my thought. Everyone has his/her own VC ideas. In my original post, I mentioned Google. I visited Stanford University's Bill Gates Computer Laboratories in the late 1990's and was surprised to find out that almost everyone there was working on Linux. Without Linux, Google would not have been started, and, at least this is what I believe, it is critical important to establish an environment that can foster further developments.
