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Has TurboLinux Collapsed?
An anonymous reader writes: "UnitedLinux already is short one founding member. Linuxgram reports that TurboLinux has collapsed." The sources mentioned are all anonymous so far; the TurboLinux website is functioning, and offers no indications that the company isn't also.
I'm sure M$ will be quick to add TBLs collapese to their revamped Linux FUD page. Linux vendors not being there in the long term to provide support and all that.
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I've noticed how every story on /. mentioning united linux has been negative. Objective????
From the sounds of the article TurboLinux wasn't doing so well to begin with. Even if this story turns out to be false it might still cause TurboLinux's stock to nosedive completely killing them off for real :(
I stole this Sig
"Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions, perhaps not even Red Hat, will survive long-term and of course all of the successive business failures that have happened among the Linux set call into question the commercial viability of the open source model. "
Umm, what the fuck is she smoking. So I guess Redhat et al should just pack it up?
BTW if that's "conventional wisdom" what is Linuxgram going to do based on a business model that reports on these companies?
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You know a company went down hard when they don't have anyone around to pull the plug on the webserver.
Of course, Fucked Company does have a "story" about Microsoft's plans to buy Yahoo. Why isn't that also on the Slashdot front page?
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And the rumor here has been that they are going under and moving out by the end of the month.
In the end, I think we all know it's going to be Redhat though. A shame as I'm a SuSE guy.
I'm a SuSE user as well. I believe they will still be around after the "survival of the fittest" weeds out the lame distros, not only becausue they have a finely polished distro, but also because they are the darling of, and are supported by Big Blue.
I bought TurboLinux and can honestly say it was the worst distro I ever installed. Nothing worked correctly. Tech support was abysmal.
Of course, that's just my experience and maybe someone with a newer distro had better luck.
Well I worked there from May of 2000 thru May 2001. I was @ Interop in Vegas, We all (25+) tayed at THE MIRAGE, my first dinner out that night, we went across the street to this chineese place, drank and ate alot of food. After the dinner, we all put a $1 on the table, and took a bet on the bill, the bets were from $495 UP TO $800... we got the bill, it was over $1200! They paid for it by breaking it up over 2 credit cards... (So accounting would not find out about it...)... 2 weeks later, we all went to ISPCON in DISNEY... Later that year we did a road show with IBM... Boy, those were the days, we all lived good... stayed at the best hotels (sometimes, like in NYC, at $350 a night!).... ate the best foods... But as they say, all good things must come to an end! I made it thru 3 layoffs in the year I was there... I left after the 3rd one occured! I remember walking into the 1/4'ly meetings and saying... We need this, this, this and this... and every 1/4 nothing would change, expect for the VP of SALES... went thru 4 of them... I am sad to see it go... but I am not surprised! I loved working for TL and sometimes wish I could have gone back... But... then again, that was after a few drinks... The company really went downhill after CLIFF AND IRIS were fired... they were the heart an sole of the comapny (have since went on to run a succesful company www.mountainviewdata.com)... In closing.. I wish all my friends who are still there and who had worked there before.. the best of luck! P.S. always remember... Eating on the boat at PIER 39, under water... now that was cool!
If one goes to the TurboLinux website and clicks through to news and events, there is a new entry there for today, 7/19/02. In that entry it talks about a new agreement to provide Linux for IBM mainframes. If they were going under immediately, why would they enter into this agreement?