Mandrivan tilanne kriittinen

Tai oikeastaan kaupallisen version. Näillä näkymin Mandrivasta on tulossa ei kaupallinen. Huomattava osa Mandrivan kaupallisten toimintojen työntekijöistä on irtisanottu. Joitakin viitteitä on tosin siitä, että taloudellinen tilanne voi aikaansaada sen että Euroopan työntekijät irtisanotaan ja tilalle palkattaisiin ehkä henkilöstöä Brasiliassa, jossa lienee Mandrivan painopiste tällä hetkellä.

Osakkeenomistajat koolla tänään.


"In the meantime, the CEO has reacted on a bug report. He says that Mandriva will concentrate on the server market in Europe and on the desktop market in countries like Brazil. Because European developers would have refused to be part of that future direction, they have been fired, according to the CEO. Of course this does not make any sense. There no reason why developers in Europe could not be working on the desktop if the target market for the desktop is mostly Brazil. The real reason why people are being fired, is of course that there is simply no more money to pay them anymore. Furthermore, I am pretty sure that Mandriva can never be a real competitor for distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server, which are much more popular in large companies. Already even 5 years ago Mandriva was often not taken seriously anymore in corporate environments, according to my experience when working for an IT company specializing in free software. Even free distributions like CentOS and Debian have a much higher reputation in the server market than Mandriva."

http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/wordpress/2010/09/16/mandrivas-future-2/