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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..."

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  1. Re:How? by Elranzer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This won't elevate us to the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet...

    Or the userbase of Debian either.