Mandrakesoft, Conectiva to merge
Posted Feb 25, 2005 14:31 UTC (Fri) by
ecureuil (subscriber, #3507)
In reply to:
Mandrakesoft, Conectiva to merge by pglennon
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Mandrakesoft, Conectiva to merge
>What value do the companies hope to bring to one another
From the rumours, I've heard in the Parisian Solutions Linux show, the
fusion between Conectiva and Mandrakesoft brings a lot of synergy in
'packaging'. For the time being, Mandrakesoft has no top-notch kernel
packager/hacker. It makes sense to share one in the new entity and
Brazilians hackers cost less than French ones. So I believe that the two
product lines are going to merge their technical base and infrastructure
to share packaging work. It is also easy to work together on packaging
through the Internet. After that, the Brazilian market is different than
the French one and I guess that each entity will keep a large commercial
autonomy.
Culturally, I think it is going to go smoothly. It is easy for a French
to understand Portuguese Brazilian and vice-versa (the language barrier
is much lower than between Novell and Suse) and there is francophilia in
the Brazilian left. Big French companies (car, auto-parts) have also
large and succesful subsidiaries in Brazil.
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