From uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu Thu Jan 6 11:18:47 2000
To make a long story short this high flying ipo raised 10.7
billion giving FreeMarkets a bigger market capitalization
than steel/energy giant USX.
Uh ... they raised $172.8M in the IPO; the market capitalization is just a fiction. They only sold 11% of the company.
/jordan