"These products have received specific development and testing efforts to make them as fit as possible for use in a business environment," said Gaël Duval, Mandrakesoft's co-founder.
Specifically, "the new Corporate Server is meant to facilitate deployment through its auto-installation and easy configuration capabilities. It can be used for any kind of server tasks, from LDAP [Lightweight Directory Access Protocol] to Web [serving]," Duval said.
As for the Corporate Desktop, it "was designed for the coming wave of Linux on the desktop. The problem of over-abounding, sometimes immature open-source software has been solved in this product through careful testing and screening of software applications. That makes Corporate Desktop immediately usable," Duval said.
In addition, the enterprise products come with a longer development cycle of 12 to 18 months between releases and a five-year maintenance span. In the past, Mandrakesoft's main focus was to make Linux available to the largest number of users, and it had very short development cycles. |
