Intel-backed AVG preps $125m IPO.

With more than 20 years of development behind it, the planned flotation next month of computer security software maker AVG is hardly a story of rapid and unexpected success.

But AVG’s evolution from what the former Czechoslovakia to a domicile in the Netherlands and towards an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange with an estimated market capitalisation of more than $700m is fascinating – a big deal indeed.

Perhaps the most interesting part has been the potential…