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 image:green up.png39 million NOK (2005)
Net income image:green up.png1.4 million NOK (2005)
Employees 70 (July, 2006)
Subsidiaries LinuxLabs
Oberon IT
Website www.linpro.no

Coordinates: 59°56′43.92″N, 10°46′40.96″E

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 100 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:

[edit] Subsidiaries

Linpro currently owns a 12% stake in e-mail and web hosting provider Runbox, and a 51% stake in Linux consulting company LinuxLabs.

Linpro previously had local offices in Fredrikstad, Bergen and Trondheim, but is now concentrated in Oslo, except for its wholly-owned subsidiary Oberon IT, which is located in Stavanger.

[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 women 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 men, who claimed that the initiative was sexist and discriminatory, as male participants would still have to pay the course fee.
  • 20th May 2008: The Swedish software company Redpill acquires Linpro.

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