On Wednesday 06 August 2003 02:44 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:14, Miark wrote: > > Red Hat has a million bucks or more to dump into this--Mandrake doesn't. > > I'm content to have Mandrake focus on it's own problems and let the > > big'uns duke it out. > > > > Miark > > What peeves me is that IBM bailed SUSE linux out of the hole with > millions of dollars, and here Mandrake sat needing only a measly million > or so, and got passed over. Crazy. Such a waste. > > I think Mandrake is superior to SUSE linux, and IBM could have saved > alot of money by investing in them, plus got a better product to boot. > > LX
LX: Having had some experience in the area, before large companies enter into agreements with new vendors, they run very thorough checks on the other party. Mandrake's shaky financial condition might well have precluded them from consideration. Purchasing guys get very nervous about issuing purchase orders to companies in Chapter 11. Yeah, I know. That doesn't explain the HP deal. -- cmg
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