Re: Interview for Club of François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva at MandrivaClub

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 2/10/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quote:
> "In your opinion, is the Ubuntu distribution a threat to Mandriva? Do
> you think Ubuntu's special circumstances make competition with it too
> hard?
> We watch very carefully any new comer in the field and any new
> products. Three years ago I got a lot of calls about Knoppix, two
> years ago, I got a lot of calls about Gentoo and so no. Right now, the
> new "in thing" is Ubuntu. Of course, the situation is a bit different
> in this case: one person, with a quasi infinite check book is behind
> the operation."
>
> http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/interview-francois0602

The 2nd half of his answer to that question is also interesting:

"Of course, at Mandriva we do not have an infinite check book, so we
need to work hard, we pay employee salaries with revenues generated by
sales, we have to watch our figures, we have to keep happy our users,
the community, our clients, our employees and our shareholders. It's a
harder life, but I believe it is also a healthy way of looking at
things. We work very hard, we can't pay high salaries, we have to make
a living out of our revenue. By doing so, we are building a strong and
healthy company based on a proven business model."



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Daniel Robitaille