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Corel May Have A Buyer For Its Linux Division

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @08:02AM from the business.com-cost-$7-million dept.

SimJockey writes: "Looks like Corel is getting out of the Linux distro business." According to an anonymous source, says the article, "a newly formed company called Xandros will pay $2 million for the Linux unit, a division that comprised about 14 percent of Corel's total business as of January 2001." The Corel distro did some things well, so good things may come out of this sale.

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Xandros at Ottawa Linux Symposium by Capn_Sternn · 2001-08-28 08:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

I remember a presentation done at the Ottawa Linux Symposium by a Xandros guy on the KDE multimedia architecture. The guy mentionned then that Xandros would be making a splash in the news in "a few months" about a new distribution. Guess this is it.
Hopefully a startup might be able to manage the distribution better than Corel has, with tighter focus and better communication with the community. The downside is that I will miss Corel's excellent presentations at OLS.