Michael Dell invests 99.5M in Red Hat

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It appears Michael Dell thinks this open source thing, and maybe even this Linux thing, might just work. Michael Dell sinks $100M into Red Hat And the inspirational blurb for all the underachievers out there: Dell, a college dropout who is now 40, built a giant computer business by assembling computers and selling them directly to customers. His personal worth is estimated at about $16 billion by Forbes magazine. (Note, its of course not really underachieving, but you get the idea.)