Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva

An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. 'Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Conectiva, the number one Linux company in Brazil and Latin America. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"

Comments

Paid for it twice?

[TERdON]

Conectiva's former owners must have done good business. As we can read at here MandrakeSoft paid for it once yesterday too...

Again?

[bsharitt]

How many times can they acquire the same company in one day.

This comment may be a dupe...

[datastalker]

...but that would fit with the site.

It's still on the front page!

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/24/1546209 .s html?tid=163&tid=147

deja vu

[Anonymous Coward]

It's so good, they bought it twice!

Harrrrrrrrrr

[hamfactorial]

^---------^ Holy overreactions Batman!

In other news...

[mpupu]

In other news, Mandrake acquired Connectiva.

THIS ISN'T A DUPE!

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Come on guys, have some sympathy.

I mean, once Mandrake aquired Connectiva, they had to reboot to load the new kernel. It's only natural that you'd see the message twice.

Shessh ...

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[DarkMantle]

Actually, there's a big difference between the two. the title of the previous article says "Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva" as in it already happened. That post was sent to us from the future because this article says that "Mandrakesoft To Aquire Conectiva" as in it hasn't happened.

With time travelling news reporters named Trillian from Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, all of our news will be out BEFORE it happens. CNN's "News As It Happens" is a thing of the past....

Or is that present.

Stupid paradox..... :s

Look at the bright side

[bstadil]

At least it is not the same guy that submitted the story. I am holding out for Cowboyneal submitting same story twice on same day.

I understand Ladbrook is giving 9:1 currently

Echo-echo-cho-o-o-o

[Grave_Rose]

Does anyone know where I can get some Post-It notes? I have this wicked idea about creating a Super Mario mural...

mirror...

[same_old_story]

right here

DUPE DAY

[zoloto]

Well, I say everytime we find a dupe - especially one within the same day and on the front page - we just dupe the comments and karma whore till our faces are numb and eyes are pained.

Just an example:

How? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199)
(http://fraggle.alkali.org/)

How do they have the money to do this? Werent they almost bankrupt about a year ago?

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Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
(http://www.votecrow.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 01, @01:30PM)

It's a stock swap. No money is involved. This is typical of how mergers often work. The companies agree to merge, and they agree what the company being acquired is worth, do some math, and convert the shares of the acquired company into shares of the new company. The math is much like doing a stock split, though the ratio usually involves a number of decimal points. (The accounting for the investors is also much like a stock split.)

The real question in this case is why is Mandrakesoft's stock worth enough for Conectiva investors to consider this to be a worthwhile deal (as opposed to grabbing on to a sinking ship). I haven't looked at the business side of either company, so I can't comment there.

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Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running /. will start to notice... wait.. they dont' even read the front page, how are they going to notice the comments? D'OH!

*tears up plans and flushes them down the toilet*

NEXT!

Dupped comments

[HokieGeek]

you think a dupped story is bad? some idiots have dupped this article's first post like 50 times!! what is this world coming to?!

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[LiquidCoooled]

Subscribers should have a button in the mysterious future.

Pressing it should sound an alarm and turn a lava lamp different colors.

Taco and Cowboy can get into their superhero costumes and slide down a pole to go and fight the evil menace.

Re:yep

[hdparm]

Acquisition went so well that they are now thinking about acquiring Conectiva, as well.

Re:yep

[qewl]

Your marklars are wise and true.

After marklar chose to obtain marklar, marklar paid a lot more marklar for the marklar than marklar wish marklar had. Other marklar dislike French marklar and want powerful and profitable marklar away from those marklar. But no matter marklar, the best marklar will always be free marklar. Open marklar forever!

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, so they posted the dupe first? Slashdot is getting good!

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[jspoon]

It's a stock swap. No money is involved. So apparently there's nothing stopping them from swapping back and forth acquiring each other several times a day.

From a leaked OSTG corporate chatlog...

[KrackHouse]

Zonk> Damn slashdot junkies are calling us on our sloppiness. What'da we do?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> I read somewhere that redundancy is the mother of invention.
CmdrTaco> What?
Zonk> I know you are... But what am I?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> Who's on first?
CmdrTaco>Yes
Zonk>What?

Correct me if I'm wrong....

[simetra]

but... didn't Slashdot run this story already?

It's really hard to be sure, but I could almost swear...

Re:Dupe!

[tomhudson]

That's right folks - tomorrow, they'll post:

Mandrakesoft rumoured to be thinking of taking over Connectiva

Connectiva stock up on rumours of takeover by Mandrakesoft

Then, Saturday ...

Mandrake to issue Mandrake linux 9.0

Then, Sunday

Mandrake to issue Mandrake linux 8.0

By April Fools Day, it'll be time to post

Linus releases version 0.9.0 of his kernel.

Microsoft releases Windows for Workgroups, DOS 6.2.4

By Thanksgiving, we'll be seeing

Ford Motor Co releases the Model T for $640.00

Christmas:

Fire good. Me hunt. Cave dry.

Finally, on New Years Eve:

Apeman-think - "What ... is ... that ... black ... monolith ... thing ..."

And start the new year with

In the beginning, ...

... and I used to love the movie Groundhog Day ...

Dupe!

[Joey Patterson]

Don't make me start my day over, CowboyNeal! I'm almost home!

Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft

[datadriven]

On the plus side, at least the topic icon is not a dupe.

Even funnier

[David Rolfe]

It's even funnier when you go straight to the linux.slashdot.org address... then the front page looks like this:

Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva
Linux Mandrake
Posted by CowboyNeal on 2005-02-24 21:09
from the changing-of-hands dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. 'Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Conectiva, the number one Linux company in Brazil and Latin America. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"

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Ask Slashdot: Building a Linux Computer Lab for Schools?
Software
Posted by Cliff on 2005-02-24 14:12
from the penguins-in-education dept.
joseamuniz asks: "After giving Linux classes to Secondary School Teachers, I got in touch with a non-profit organization called UNETE. This association has donated 1,523 computer labs to public schools in Mexico. I told them about Linux, and they are interested in equipping a beta computer lab with this Operating System, with Intel PIII, 256 MB RAM PCs. The more they like this lab, the higher chances to include Linux in the new labs donated by this institution." What hardware configurations and software packages would you install on such a machine to show off the real power of Linux in an educational environment?

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Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva
Linux Business
Posted by Zonk on 2005-02-24 11:25
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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That's right, THE DUPES ARE SO CLOSE THEY APPEAR IN THE SAME FREAKIN WINDOW. They are seperated by one -- ONE -- other story. It's a new level of laziness.

Wormhole! Wormhole!

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems like, as we step forward, the story goes backward. Someone tell Micheal to post a story:
Mandrakesoft thinking of acquiring Conectiva?

What did Merlin say about Mandrake?

[infonography]

it was to Morgana;

Merlin - What is that root?

Morgana - Mandrake, the essence of it can prolong the act of love

Merlin - And if too much is taken?

Morgana - Pain and Death.

Relevanice? None. Just liked that bit in Borman's Excalibur.

And if your wondering what my distro is, it's SuSE, because she wears short skirts and big black leather boots...