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Mandrakelinux Releases New Corporate Line
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."
I look at the redhat enterprise series, and there was 5 major updates for Redhat Advanced Server 2.1. Now if the goal was to appeal to the corporate world with a less changing and more stable version, then 5 updates in 1 year clearly contradicts that. That's not even counting Advanced Server 3.0 updates. Let's face it, Mandrake and Redhat. You need CA$H desperately.
There still is a Free Mandrake "Download Edition", and they promise to keep it that way. This announcement is about a version with commercial support and added features. Mandrake is a commercial company, but they're all about the Free as in Free Speech thing.
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?
That's scary.
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.
That's scary.
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.
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
Today I discovered that my 3-CD 10.1 Official didn't have flex, bison, or rsh-server packages. They're on the 4th CD, which you can't download for free.
Yes, there were many ways to solve this problem. But I consider these standard elements that should be on the CDs. My next upgrade will probably be to a different distro.
If Chaos Theory has taught us anything, it's that we must kill all the butterflies.