Mandrakesoft Profitable in 2004

wikinerd writes "Mandrake Linux seems to make good money for Mandrakesoft! According to its financial data it made more than 5 million Euro in revenue with the ending of the 2004 financial year. The financial result for 2004 was close to 1.4 million Euro, while in 2003 it was about -2 million. This means that Mandrakesoft is now back to profitability. Those who are interested enough can read the Mandrakesoft announcement."

Comments

Great News

[Mark_MF-WN]

This is great news. Mandrake is one of the best all-around distributions. Close to the cutting-edge, extremely usable, and a library of packages exceeded only by Debian.

Re:Reinvestment

[Handbrewer]

We should take a good long look at MacOS X - its the ultimate in Operating Systems right now, userfriendly, yet powerful and secure. And its *NIX.

KDE or Gnome should really be looking good and hard on how they balance things in MacOS X. A bad Windows clone sucks, a bad MacOS X clone would probably still be better, and dont give me that "Well people are used to windows" well thats exactly the reason we should introduce a better design, yet easy to learn. Thats exactly what MacOS X accomplishes, why cant we?.

now they should hire more people

[Pooh22]

Mandrakesoft is doing fine, but now they are making profit again, they should work on getting more people to both fix big annoying bugs that no volunteer can/wants to handle and also get some people to drag the Club out of the desolate mess it's turned into since Deno left.

Mandrakesoft should (and probably does) realise the profit was more of a statement to the world than something that shows long-term health.

If they manage to hire some really good people in the first quarter of 2005, I think Mandrake 11.0 could be really good, but if they don't.... :-(

All IMHO of course ;-) /Simon