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Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Paid for it twice? by TERdON · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. mirror... by same_old_story · · Score: 5, Funny

    right here

  3. Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

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  4. Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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