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MandrakeSoft Improves Financial Health

Posted by simoniker on from the put-back-in-pot dept.

joestar writes "MandrakeSoft's latest financial results have been posted to their website. Despite a slight decrease in revenues - mostly due to the dollar/euro rate and negative effects of the Chapter 11-like protection - first results seem impressive: "the company reduced operational expenses by a factor of 5, increased gross margins by a factor of 5 and reduced its losses by a factor of 7". As a result, MandrakeSoft has been cash-flow positive since January 2003, and expects its first positive result for the current quarter! Along with latest Mandrake Linux cool products, these are excellent news in my opinion because it shows that an appropriate business model can help Linux companies greatly."

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  1. This just in.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...it turns out that it was Richard Stallman, not Saddam Hussein, who was arrested in Iraq.

  2. woop dee freaking doo by nil5 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    mandrake sucks. real pros use debian. grow up or die off.

  3. I wonder if the shipped any labor to India by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They could save a fortune and can hire 3 programmers for the price of one!

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    http://saveie6.com/
  4. OMFG!!! RAISED BY GOATS!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Andes boy M the Peruvian Andes 1990 12 goats
    Aegisthus M Italy 250 goats

    I, for one, welcome our homo neogoatsapiens overloards!

  5. A vote for Mandrake is a vote for Saddam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why support a company based in a country that back-stabs its supposed friends to get oil from a murderous monster...Saddam..

    Scum sucking Frogs!

    Enjoy... Hell Frenchie. Good riddance..

  6. Re:Troll.. by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Ahh. Perhaps that explains why they asked for donations. No wait, it doesn't. You know, donations. As in "give us money or we will die". The club deal would have been fine except that it did not work. Ergo, beg for cash. What part of that did you not understand?[1]

    I applaud Mandrake

    Yes, I'm you sure do. Now be a good little zealot and fuck off.

    [1] This is a rethorical question, so don't try to answer.