Well my neighbor is a Research Scientist for HP and I keep pounding away at him (now if I can just get Mandrake on HIS deaktop...) :> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 23:28, Frankie wrote: > thats fantastic.. I hope they do alot of business.. > And i hope the mandrake machines are much cheaper. > > now if Dell and all the other biggies would sit up and take notice. linux > may well make a desktop dent. > > > rgds > > Franki > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby > Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2003 10:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Interview: Gaël Duval on finances > > > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 01:00 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Source URL: > > http://mozillaquest.com/Linux_News03/MandrakeClustering_Story01.html > > > >>> snip > > > > --LX > > LX: > When I read the original article, the cynic in me kept whispering in my ear, > "What do you expect him to say?" -- "We're in deep do do, and we'll be lucky > if we survive until mid-August", or "Look, I've got some heavy bread stashed > away just over the border in Switzerland, so next week I'm off to Martinique > with all those sweet babes. It's every man for himself time, and there's > only > one lifeboat." Nahhh -- CEO's have to put a positive spin on events -- it's > in their job descriptions. Hell, Ken Lay never let on that Enron was in > Really Deep Stuff, did he? Of course not. > > But then tonight I found this very encouraging story today at the Mandrake > home page: > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2426 > > Synopsis: HP will be selling one of their _desktop_ lines with an option of > XP > Pro, XP Home, or (drum roll, please) MANDRAKE 9.1! We ain't talking servers > here, folks, we're talking desktops! And we ain't talking Red Hat, Suse or > Lindows, we're talking Mandrake! Wow! HP not only thinks that Mandrake can > survive, but that Mandrake is the best solution to putting Linux on > desktops. > Looks good to me. > > (There's also a current thread on Slashdot about this. It's the usual /. > stuff.) > > -- cmg (who will be renewing his Club membership) > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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