Re: Questioning RH's decisions to remain a viable and independent company?
"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers |
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| Organization | Red Hat Inc. |
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Elton Woo wrote: >> > > Any care to speculate on who will acquire Mandrake and when? >> > >> > You have a point. Given the financial situation of Mandrake, I suppose >> > they must be dying to sell. > ><*chuckle*> ... You seem to have given voice to what I've been thinking >secretly: possibly Red Hat will acquire Mandrake ... thereby giving them >access to other markets, and being able to provide products that >are not strictured by US governance (think certain codecs... for example). > >Mandrake is already an rpm-based distro, and though it has diverged somewhat >from the Red Hat Linux structure, it is not totally 'alien'. For that matter, >FC + Mandrake = (possible) shrinkwrap for the SOHO's and hobbyists. With >RHEL for Red Hat's main breadwinner: the corporate customers. > >QED: "everybody wins"! http://www.na.org Thought that might be useful for you to bookmark. <grin> -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- fedora-test-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list