On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:41:52 +0000, Franki wrote: > See that might be one of the problems... > > Mandrake need to think globally, not french.. > > Whats the biggest market for mandrake? I doubt its french... > > The number one rule that explains the M$ saga is targeted marketing.. > > They know what will get the possible users in a specific country and they > hit them with it... > > Mandrake may not have the beans for that.. but they should at least target > the marketing at the > biggest potential market.. which is probably the US and UK... (but I could > be wrong on that one.)
Hmm. Certainly France only will not be the market that can make Mandrake surrvive on a longer perspective, but the EU certainly is. Here in Europe there is a strong movement against usage of closed source software in government/government-near organisations but unfortunately we don't hear too much of lobbyism coming from Mandrake. And for the US - European distributions in general have quite a hard stand in the US, just look what kind of troubles SuSE had & still has in the US. There are - as usual - many reasons for that, but I think the the US market is one of the most difficult ones and I doubt that RedHat will let market shares go away too easy. just my 2�s. udo
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