Linpro

Infobox Company
company_name = Linpro
company_
company_type = Private (AS)
foundation = 1995
location = 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 = (2005)
operating_income =
net_income = (2005)
num_employees = 70 (July, 2006)
parent =
subsid = LinuxLabs
Oberon IT
homepage = [http://www.linpro.no www.linpro.no]
footnotes =

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:

* Security
* Project management
* Systems operations and servers
* Desktop
* Network
* Web applications
* Database
* Java
* Perl
* PHP
* C/C++

ubsidiaries

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.

History

* 1995: Founded by Dag Asheim
* On July 1 2005, the company announced [http://php.digi.no/php/art.php?id=218473] 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.

External links

* Linpro
** [http://www.linpro.no Linpro's homepage]
** [http://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr=975842061 Linpro's entry in the Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway's official company register]

* Software
** [http://www.multiframe.no/ Multiframe]
** [http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ Munin]
** [http://limacute.projects.linpro.no/ Limacute]
** [http://www.varnish-cache.org/ Varnish]
** [http://bifrost.projects.linpro.no/ Bifrost]