Linpro

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Linpro

Type	Private (AS)
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Key people	Dag Asheim: Founder and board member; Michael Max: Chairman; Trond Heier: CEO
Industry	Computer software Information technology consulting Internet hosting service Training Services
Products	Multiframe Munin (Network Monitoring Application) Limacute Varnish cache
Revenue	39 million NOK (2005)
Net income	1.4 million NOK (2005)
Employees	70 (July, 2006)
Subsidiaries	LinuxLabs Oberon IT
Website	www.linpro.no

Linpro AS is a Linux solutions company from Oslo, Norway, founded in 1995 by Dag Asheim, and mainly owned by its employees. They provide solutions around free and Open Source systems like Linux and FreeBSD, as well as commercial Unix systems.

Their more than 70 employees work with analysis and planning, design and architecture, software and solution development, system administration and support in network and datacenter operations, training and certification services.

The company consolidates their employee's knowledge and experience into the following resource groups:

Linpro owns 12% of e-mail hosting and webhosting provider Runbox.

[edit] History

1995: Founded by Dag Asheim
On July 1, 2005, the company announced[1] that it would provide summer training and certification courses in Linux Systems administration (up to LPI level 1) free of charge for females as an initiative to do something about the low ratio of females in the computing industry, especially in the Linux systems field. The response was overwhelming and positive, but it also sparked some controversy from some males, claiming that the initiative was sexist and that it was sexual discrimination, as males still would have to pay the course fee.