On Wednesday 01 November 2000 15:01, Pixel wrote:
| Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > c) are you able to assemble Linux Mandrake on MIPS architecture? Hope
| > so.
|
| just wondering how big we need to be to achieve all this. I know going
I wish Mandrake to become BIG, really _B_I_G_ in revenues. But better not to
be too big with number of people, from my experience...
Matrix management structure with several cost-centers/business units can be
very helpful.
You are doing excelllent job, amaazing!... Keep it going!
| corporate makes a lot of money, just hoping we can keep the mandrake on
| desktop in the meantime. redhat has gone corporate+embedded, turbolinux is
| corporate, SuSE is in between. The only big linux that is really desktop is
| Corel. Hope we won't have to leave them the field! I think a lot of people
| agree with this :-)
|
you can't leave corporate "as is".
You need some good customers, and even not just to put their names on "Fame
Board" but to test your technology and proove stability & reliability of
Linux.
What about France Telecom and French Railroads?
I believe these are customers who can benefit from LM.
Just test installation of 500 computers with LM... :-)
| All i hope is that we can stay opensource and even opendevelopment. Only
| RedHat is all opensource (not totally opendevelopment, but neither are we
| :-( Maybe also connectiva (caldera is not, suse a little, turbolinux is
| not, easylinux is not...)
Hope so.
Let's see how SCO deal will come out for Caldera, and what will happen
finally with Corel.
>From "outside" point of view alliance with SuSE can be helpful for both
Mandrake and SuSE.
a little bit more about corporate market.
Yes, it's difficult to convinience somebody to upgrade Windows PCs to KDE2
(while I am trying now with one friend of mine :-) May be I will try to
convinience him at least for dual-boot install... 50 pcs, not too small
company.
Apache is ready and it is here.
You can sell it to ISP. As about added value, I am unfortunately not very
familiar what it can be in this case.
Linux as router/firewall is also rather popular aplication, don't know if
somebody try to sell Linux in such pre-configured variant together with
x86box and several Ethernet cards.
By the way, are Gigabit Ethernet cards supported by LM?
And, I20 technology (Intelligent Input Output)?
You will find a lot of this cool stuff in HP camp.
--
Vadim Plessky
http://kde2.newmail.ru (English)
http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian)
