SI Reasoning wrote: ~snip~
so, besides the bankruptcy protection application, maybe Mandrake can look at other mainframe manufacturers to see if any of them would be willing to invest in Mandrake, as IBM did with SUSE.As far as IBM bailing out SUSE, that was also another first. They were the first of the majors to approach bankruptcy, I would hedge bets that if Mandrakesoft was the first approaching Bankruptcy, then IBM may well have bailed out Mandrake and SUSE would be declaring Chapter 11 style bankruptcy now. It was IBM's interest that Linux appear strong (especially at that time when they were first starting to promote linux) since so much of their strategy depended on that and that strategy was still in the process of development. Their linux strategy is now more established at this time so they are less vulnerable also.
went looking at mainframe systems the other day, all companies manufacturing mainframes are shipping them with linux as os.
so, sell one on using Mandrake for thier systems.
