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to: Adam Flinton
from: David Gonzalez
date: 2003-03-29 15:34:02
subject: Sun should bundle madrake

Hello Adam.

29 Mar 03 17:38, you wrote to Egan Orion:

 >> IBM and HP are tight with Red Hat, and IBM also supports SuSE.
 >>
 >> Debian has a slow update cycle -- good, bad, or neutral?
 >>
 >> Debian is also very Euro, independent, and idealogical.
 >>
 >> Mandrake is (was?) Red Hat based, but is more innovative.
 >>
 >> Mandrake needs more capital to get on solid ground.
 >>
 >> Decisions, decisions...
 >>
 >> Sun could do worse than invest in Mandrake (and Opterons can hammer
 >> HP).

Mdk is a great solution as it is not as *MONEY MONEY* as RH so people like it 
better ... and Debian well Debian is Debian. Incompatible, harder to get up 
and going, less attractive for Desktop users so they're loosing a big money 
there. and SuSE is cool too though vey Euro as u stated above.

 AF> I reckon Mandrake. Like I say if they go for RH or suse then they will
 AF> be helping comps who are aimng at solaris/the enterprise as a stated
 AF> aim. Mandrake works well as a server & as a desktop & is more modest
 AF> in it's enterprise ambitions.

All right here!.

David

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