-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 February 2005 19:51, Glenn wrote: > On Thu February 24 2005 09:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 15:44, Miark wrote: > > > This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring > > > Conectiva: > > > > > > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539&wslan > > >g= en > > > > Apparently it gives them access to good R&D possibilities. It can't hurt > > to have access to South American markets, either. > > > > Anne > > I'm a little surprised that, after last years fears of Mandrakesoft going > down the tubes, they're in a position to acquire another company. Good on > them. > > Glenn
That´s what I would like to know! Who´s buying? One ad mentioned a simple ´merge´ the other suggests that Mandrake acquired Conectiva! So, what is the real thing under the hood? Conectiva is part of United Linux! So... Is Mandrake buying the Conectiva asset (which is considerable) or United Linux? Conectiva is present is all America, North to South. I´m not quite sure about Central America. Oh, by the way, Conectiva was bought from the original founders (Arnaldo C. de Melo, aka ACME was one of them) by a financial corporation based in Europe (bank?) years ago. Ricardo Castanho Brazil - -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => PGP: 748A9E35 => 100% M$ FREE ========================================================== Sun, 27 Feb 2005 02:10:00 -0300 02:10:00 up 2 days, 6:48, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.08 "We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement." - -- Richard J. Daley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCIVkZlyXj13SKnjURApibAJ9Ejjp76YlgRUG74jAIZkEAq9HASACgk5+T zdUS1eyHIX3B32dVY5oP63Q= =on1G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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