Mandriva's Future Rosy or Rose Colored? (Linux Journal)

[Posted July 5, 2010 by ris]

Susan Linton takes a look at the delayed release of Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. "Mandriva has been providing enterprise and educational systems and support as well as selling boxed sets and USB drives of its desktop system, but they've always had difficulty competing with other Linux companies such as Red Hat and Novell in terms of revenue and the ability to land long-term contracts. Experts question Mandriva's ability to construct a profitable business model and users hope a freely available version will continue to be a part of the business model. Speculation on Mandriva forums has them abandoning the PowerPack and splitting their offerings into enterprise and community versions, much like Redhat and Fedora or Novell and openSUSE." The final release is currently scheduled for July 8, 2010.