'What's a Splunk? Part of the Next Wave of Start-Ups Going Public'

摘要

Silicon Valley's initial public offering machine is shifting to a new sweet spot: enterprise technology companies. After a year of high-profile consumer Internet IPOs-from Groupon Inc., Linkedln Corp. and Zynga Inc. last year to Yelp Inc. and Facebook Inc. now-a slew of Silicon Valley companies that sell technology mainly to businesses are also getting ready to hit the stock market.