| Xandros nears first release: set to announce at LinuxWorld |
Aug. 02, 2002
DesktopLinux.com contributing editor Malcolm Dean interviews Xandros president Michael Bego and Dr. Frederick Berenstein, co-chairman of Linux Global Partners (the financial backer of Xandros), regarding the current state of Xandros as a company and on their plans to roll out the first release of Xandros Linux this Fall. Bego gives details about the distribution that includes "a spectacular office suite" and discusses Xandros' corporate goal "to be among the first crop of profitable Linux companies" . . .
" . . . Bego confirmed that Xandros will announce at LinuxWorld a complete desktop solution including 'a spectacular office suite' and other applications aimed at low-powered PCs, making Xandros a practical solution for machines which have no hope of running resource-hungry Microsoft products . . . "
"Bego said . . . 'Xandros 1.0 will appear in late September or early October. Our beta users say Beta 2 was one of the best solutions out there. We currently have about 25 developers on the team . . . We expect to be among the first crop of profitable Linux companies . . . Mandrake is more oriented toward hobbyist users. Our emphasis is on one-button control, and the creation of a quality Linux product that corporations won't have difficulty introducing into their environment. Lycoris is heading in a great direction, but they're primarily packaging Open Source components. Between Xandros and Corel, we've invested $32 million above and beyond that, and it shows' . . . "
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