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Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva

Posted by Zonk on from the one-plus-one-equals-linux dept.

rednaxel writes "This morning, both companies issued press releases about the merge. French Mandrakesoft is acquiring all shares of brazilian Conectiva for a total amount of 1.79 million EUR (2.3 million USD) in stock." CNet has coverage of the merger as well. From the article: "This won't elevate us to the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet, of course, but this is a significant growth for us..."

7 of 229 comments (clear)

  1. New Name by Conorb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mandrakiva ?

    1. Re:New Name by Elranzer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mandriva.... Man-gina Linux?

  2. Mandrakesoft promptly by AbbyNormal · · Score: 1, Funny

    surrenders to Conectiva and raises a white flag.

    --
    Sig it.
  3. Uh oh... by yuckysocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    MandrakeSoft, why, you could abbreviate that MS. And MS is aquiring companies and getting bigger?
    I think I just felt my knee jerk a little bit...

    *Runs for the hills*

  4. Re:What does MandrakeSoft gain? by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

    You on the other hand are an asshole.

    And they moderate it "informative" and "insightful". Go mods! :)

  5. Kicking MS out of the 5th largest country? by gelfling · · Score: 4, Funny

    What with the Brazilian government wanting to kick MS off all government desktops, the fact that a disproportionate number of distros come from Brazil & it's the 5th most populous country in the world I'd say it's somewhat strategic in nature for Mandrake to do this.

  6. Heart attack averted by cianduffy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking quickly at this story in my RSS reader, I saw "Microsoft acquires Connectiva"....