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Mandrakesoft: 10.1 Official, Good Financial News
joestar writes "Lots of good news from the publishers of Mandrakelinux. Mandrakelinux
10.1 Official for x86-64 was released today. Yesterday's financial release announced their best year so far (turnover up 33%). ZDNet UK has an article. The company also recently announced that it had been granted a research grant for mobility R&D. All in all it looks like Mandrakesoft is back on track and doing
great. Good luck guys!"
OMGZ, frist post@!11oneone
It is official -- CNN confirms: Arafat is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Palestinian community when IDC confirmed that Arafat platelet count has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of normal count. Coming on the heels of a recent CNN survey which plainly states that Arafat has lost more brain cells, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Arafat is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Fatakh comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a doctor to predict Arafat's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Arafat faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Arafat because Arafat is dying. Things are looking very bad for Arafat. As many of us are already aware, Arafat continues to lose his breath. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeArafat is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeArafat developers Ahmed Yassin and Muhamad Barguti only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeArafat is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenArafat leader Qorei states that there are 7000 users of OpenArafat. How many users of NetArafat are there? Let's see. The number of OpenArafat versus NetArafat posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetArafat users. Arafat/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetArafat posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Arafat/OS. A recent article put FreeArafat at about 80 percent of the Arafat market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeArafat users. This is consistent with the number of FreeArafat Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the West Bank, abysmal sales and so on, FreeArafat went out of business and was taken over by ArafatI who sell another troubled regime. Now ArafatI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Arafat has steadily declined in market share. Arafat is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Arafat is to survive at all it will be among carcass dilettante dabblers. Arafat continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Arafat is dead.
Fact: Arafat is dying
PS: First post!!!1