:ABC News: Linuxcare gets venture capital funding, names CFO
ABC News: Linuxcare gets venture capital funding, names CFO May 3, 1999, 20 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1646 reads)
"The company also said that it has named Fernand Sarrat, formerly the head of
network security software developer Cylink Corp., as its chief executive.
Sarrat was also a 23-year veteran of International Business Machines Corp.
Linuxcare, based in San Francisco, did not identify the other investors or
disclose the amount of funding it has received. But the investment by the
well-known Kleiner Perkins is a big endorsement in Linux. It is also the first
Kleiner Perkins investment in a Linux-related company."
The seeming discrepancy between the headline's reference to "CFO" vs. the article's "chief executive"
appeared in the original wire service story. - Ed.
