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Mandrakesoft revenues increase
Mandrakesoft has announced
its financial results for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004.
"Mandrakesoft's revenue for fiscal year 2003-2004 has reached 5.18
millions Euros, representing a 33% increase over the previous year. This
revenue is the highest in the company's history. The revenue growth
strongly accelerated during H2 2003/2004, with a 49% year over year rise in
revenues, when compared to a 21% year over year increase in H1."
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Hmm.... Posted Nov 9, 2004 20:02 UTC (Tue) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link] Maybe it's time for for Novell to bring them into the fold. (he! he!)
Is it legal to buy a French company? Would it be a merger, or would the French simply surrender?
Hmm.... Posted Nov 9, 2004 20:35 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] The French are not historically known for surrendering easily. Look South and East a bit for people who've been known to do it a good bit more often. :)
(speaking as a native of a country which spent, ooh, about half a millennium trying and failing to conquer France)
Hmm.... Posted Nov 9, 2004 20:54 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] " Maybe it's time for for Novell to bring them into the fold. (he! he!) "
Shouldn't it be better to try Microsoft first,..., or better putting it, try to convert large portions of Microsoft market,... offering better products and specialy services ??...
There isnt, nor should be, any distro war... i belive there is room for everyone... and plenty of opportunitys to grow
(I'm not French nor a Mandrake activist.)
Hmm.... Posted Nov 9, 2004 21:04 UTC (Tue) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link] That's kind-of/sort-of my facetious reasoning.
Novell has purchased Ximian and SUSE, which gives it excellent products and excellent market positioning. Mandrake has many pieces that would fit well into the greater Novell puzzle. Mandrake could (possibly) give Novell/SUSE even greater credibility while strengthening their technical and usability foundation.
Hmm.... Posted Nov 10, 2004 7:18 UTC (Wed) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link] Stay clear of Novell, they are the tiny version of the evil softwareempire : "Why timing of Novell Linux chief resignation, Microsoft payoff is rather curious" http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/11/09/1932205.s... SuSE will be left at the garbage... If you think thats a nice idea, then i know enough. I reckon you either have special interests in these evil software corporations, or you seem to have no clue what happens when a European independent Linux company becomes a lame puppy in the hands of a US Software Corporation. Novell has a rather ugly track-record when it comes to buying other companies products : http://www.ctyme.com/dri.htm I tried SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 here, and i was not impressed. It seems i'm not the only one. Robert
Hmm.... Posted Nov 10, 2004 17:22 UTC (Wed) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link] According to Andrew Morton (with Hat Tip to Linux Journal, Nov.2004):
- Approximately 1,000 developers contribute changes to Linux on a regular basis.
Novell/SUSE is one of those companies. I support that. I support Linux with my dollars. I'm not ashamed of that.
That said, do not try to bait me into defending Novell and/or SUSE. I won't play that game.
Oh, yeah, I buy proprietary software that runs on my Linux desktops, too. Evil me!
Mandrakesoft revenues increase Posted Nov 9, 2004 23:10 UTC (Tue) by Skottish (guest, #25947) [Link] It can't be too hard for them to make a profit considering they have no customer service staff. Trust me, I'm a MandrakeClub subscriber.
Mandrakesoft revenues increase Posted Nov 10, 2004 7:06 UTC (Wed) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link] indeed i just renewed my annual EUR 120,= silverstar mandrakeclubmembership. And what a year it has been. The Torrent downloads from mandrakelinux.com literally come out of my nose :) For EUR 120,= thats a bargain. Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1 (i586 and AMD64) is what i downloaded here. Not bad. Why i choose Mandrake ? "Ahh you must be a lame ex-windows clicxor" No i selected Mandrake because they are one of the few Linux distro builders out there, who have a consistent and rock-solid development engine inside their distros. Any source tarball , SRPM or whatever produces clean binary RPMS, like it has always been this way, and only seems natural and logical. Having tried several other distros , i know now that such a rocksolid development engine, never comes naturally. Mandrake gaining a good income? They have earned it.
Mandrakesoft revenues increase Posted Nov 11, 2004 12:43 UTC (Thu) by cyrille.honore (guest, #4667) [Link] You surely received the message from Mandrakesoft announcing the 10.1 version for amd64 will not be available neither for everybody nor for members of MandrakeClub (but only through MandrakeStore). Are you still so enthusiast ?
Mandrakesoft revenues increase Posted Nov 11, 2004 14:30 UTC (Thu) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link] For now.Times are rough so it seems. I agree that 10.1 amd64 should be for download, at least in a stripped down edition. And I also agree that publishing a boxed only set, without a BETA test period for something like a 10.1 amd64 Community release is also not a wise decision. Despite that I ordered this box today, and remember they are not asking EUR 750,=, a.k.a. RedHat prices, for this, but EUR 119,=. Being a silver club member gives me 25% off on this. Recently i installed mandrake 10.1 i586 here on a Compaq Proliant ML370 with SmartArray 5302-128 controller, with a 2.40GHz P4 Xeon Hyperthreading CPU. Installed and configured the Mandrake apache based Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.31 (Mandrakelinux/7mdk) DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.8 The machine now runs www.export.nl, a dozen other related websites and several email services. This thing is rock-solid. So....
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