SuSE lays off much of its US staff

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at coe.neu.edu
Thu Feb 8 11:48:04 EST 2001


Why is Mandrake still around if Redhat comes with KDE?  Wasn't Mandrakes
primary concern KDE?  I know I'm missing something - just not sure what.

Thanks,
Anthony

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I'm not sure if this was posted to the BLU list, but SuSE laid off much of 
> its US staff. Essentially, they have modified their business plan to make 
> the US operaiton proftable by the end of this year rather than 2002 as 
> had been established in their previous business plan. However, IMHO, 
> SuSE and Red Hat will remain as major players after some of the other 
> distributions depart the scene. I'm sure that Slackware and Debian will 
> remain, and possibly Mandrake. 
> http://www.linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=109&aid=11712
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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