Re: Questioning RH's decisions to remain a viable and independentcompany?

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris redhat com>]

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"!

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<grin>


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