You get burned playing with FIRE
I wish I had posted this when I first wanted to about four weeks ago, (and maybe have saved some people from losing money) but SourceFire was not a good investment! No matter how much I support Snort IDS as an open source project, I don’t want to put what limited, hard earned money I have into a company that’s failing to meet financials, in debt up to their necks, and slowing growth and revenues. From what I could tell, people jumped on the SourceFire bandwagon just because it was a security company and had friends in the game. In the game of stocks, I think Jim Cramer says it best “I’m not here to make friends, I’m here to make money.”

You can’t really judge a company and or provide investment advice the first quarter after company goes public. Misjudging their first quarter finances put a dent in their stock price and might even be a good opportunity to purchase stock. If purchase delays caused the numbers to be lower.. then they’ll probably be higher on the second quarter.