On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:02, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Franki schrieb am Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:46:23 +0800: > > > That leaves Mandrake as the biggest contender in the desktop market.. > > possibly the only "newbie friendly" one left (apart from Lindows and > > Xandros, which don't have "free" versions to bring the newbies in...) > > That may be true for people who care for such issues like SuSE/Novell. > Newbies who buy "newbie friendly" distros don't even know there may be > an issue. > > Here in Germany, the only area SuSE plays a prominent role, SuSE will > stay on top for long because it's a German speaking company, because > they have an infrastructure all over the place (training centers, > resellers, business consultants, etc.). It's like you open a phone > directory and look for Linux, SuSE pops up in the first 200 entries. > > There aren't many Germans who vote for "Buy German" like it is in large > parts of the USA but the direct contact via local phone calls and > native tongue support pays out. > > If Mandrake could afford to establish one or two offices in Germany > with German speaking supporters and sales reps, they could cut a fair > share of the cake, but not otherwise. It's really amazing how many > Mandrake users there are in Germany, though. > > Our German language MandrakeUser.de has met the 300 registered users > mark after 14 days and is still growing. We had more than 3000 forum > entries in 2 weeks and still growing. > > Maybe we can help getting some of SuSE's share. ;-) > > wobo
Not to disagree with a single word you said, but I read an strange one the other day. Seems that the #1 distro in Russia is MDK, or variants off of it. curious. James
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