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Mandrakelinux Releases New Corporate Line

Posted by timothy on from the more-than-hanging-on dept.

joestar writes "Mandrakelinux' line of products has just been updated with two new products which are dedicated to the corporate world: Mandrakelinux Corporate Server and Mandrakelinux Corporate Desktop for x86 and x86-64 architectures. According to Mandrakesoft, these products focus on reliability and security, and will be maintained for five years. In my opinion, this release really says much about new Mandrakesoft's strategy and business. Press release here."

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  1. more mandrake by broyles · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sorry but i feel the better distros are distros like gentoo and debian where the free as in beer is still there and not out to make money

    1. Re:more mandrake by Heftklammerdosierer! · · Score: 1, Insightful
      Although Mandrakesoft's main focus has been to make Linux available to the largest number of users, the company has also acknowledged, very early, that Linux required specific adaptations to be functional in a business environment.

      "Hey you guys, with all the money? Those free Linuxes, they're no good for you. You'd better pay us to write 'Business Edition' on the box."

    2. Re:more mandrake by HolyCoitus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Those distributions might be better for your uses or better for the ideals of the community but distributions like Mandrake are great for everyone as well. Putting forth a product like this gives another option to a business thinking about buying Linux. A major company would never purchase something without support or a business backing it. The larger the user base for Linux, the more software that gets written for it. The more drivers there are. I'll never complain about a distribution, even if I think its goals suck.

      Really what I'm trying to say is that while I would prefer to use a Debian or a Gentoo I realize that is just an opinion. Letting others fill in different situations is optimal. Gentoo is not in a position to release a corporate edition nor do they need to be. I think that is a good thing for everyone involved.

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    3. Re:more mandrake by SunFan · · Score: 3, Insightful


      As long as you are happy with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, and PHP/Perl/Python/Tomcat, for example, Gentoo and Debian are very good, but these "corporate" distros are for capturing Oracle customers, BEA customers, etc.

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      -- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
  2. Re:Bittorrent by HolyCoitus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't this rather off the topic at hand of having a corporate desktop? The distribution method would most likely be tailored to paying customers along with the support models that go along with it. This is not meant to be a feely available distribution.

    Your experiences with a bad download or bad hardware compatibility for the distribution certainly have no place in this thread. I generally don't complain about modding, but why was this modded insightful?

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