Guest anon Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Mandrakesoft achieved an operating income of 0.86 million Euros($1.14 million) and net income of 1.39 million Euros ($1.85 million) in Fiscal Year 2003/2004. Per share, operating income was 0,18 Euros ($0.24 per share) and net income 0.29 Euros ($0.39 per share). For further details, please see the financial release at http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/invest...41201?wslang=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samael26 Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 cool! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It sure is ! Mandrake's back on the saddle, or so it seems ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 nice to hear that mandrake will be around for some longer time and not going bankcrupt (although some bad tongues whished that). i had the one year-pleasure to use mandy and it would hurt me to see the distro fade away although i am using a different distro right now... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 nice to hear that mandrake will be around for some longer time and not going bankcrupt (although some bad tongues whished that). i had the one year-pleasure to use mandy and it would hurt me to see the distro fade away although i am using a different distro right now... :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Great news. That French government contract probably helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 I thought Mandrake was in the black since a couple of financial terms ago. Does the report for the whole year or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 The text of the article suggests a whole year. What year though? UK tax year-end is early April (goes by weeks), accounting year-end is end September / early October (I think). Then again we ain't in the Euro yet, so who knows about France? Great to hear either way - from first impressions, I reckon Mandy 10.1 will further cement their future. Solid like Francophile bananas rejoice! </sorry> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 in Fiscal Year 2003/2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 (edited) in Fiscal Year 2003/2004 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mandrake French government contracts: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mandrakesoft launch “Open Source” solution for Internet in Africa French Ministry of Equipment chooses Mandrakesoft to migrate 1,500 office and infrastructure Windows NT servers to Linux By way of comparision, here's some British contracts John Prescott's £50 million web site is useless crock MS Windows. Taxpayers money wasted: £50 million 80,000 desktops blue screen at Department of Work and Pensions MS Windows. £400 million contract with EDS & Microsoft. National Health Service signs £500 million deal with Microsoft MS Windows , again. You can see where this is heading, cant you? *sigh* I really must get around to going back to night school and brush up on my French, because we've got a UK government that simply does not understand or want to understand the benefits of Linux. The way things are heading, France will be THE place to be in Europe for Linux development in the next decade. I might be wrong, i've got a strong hunch about it. Edited December 1, 2004 by kde-head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/08/nh..._deal_analysis/ An analysis by The Register on the NHS/Microsoft deal - very scarey stuff, considering its the health sector in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 it gets worse http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/egu_oss_policy_v2/ I really must get around to going back to night school and brush up on my French, because we've got a UK government that simply does not understand or want to understand the benefits of Linux. The way things are heading, France will be THE place to be in Europe for Linux development in the next decade. I might be wrong, i've got a strong hunch about it. I reckon china is going to be an increasingly important market, I can't see them going the microsoft route. France and Germany are possibly wanting to encourage their own indigenous IT as a rival to microsoft. Only a complete idiot would want one company to have so much power, but then we have a bunch of idiots in charge just now don't we. You would have thought after being caught out with that altered word document they would want sometimg a bit more secure. What happens if somebody's medical records get hacked in to who is liable the medical practice or an NHS which dictates the software is to be used? I have to use various company web sites rather a lot, when you ask the IT guys they mostly use linux themselves but at work use what they are told to. I think the biggest problem in uk industry is managers dictating policy on IT without knowing enough about it, as well as admin systems designed by people who don't use them. Again most of the admin staff that I speak to are never asked about how they use the systems and what they need. they just get given it and told not to complain. I have to contend with on line application systems that if I want to alter anything or give instructions I have to fax it to them, wait two days till they scan it on to their system and somebody can deal with it. I can't e-mail because of security reasons. The sheer stuupidity beggars belief. The numpties have got control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kde-head Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 a lot of valid points there gmac. sometimes i feel that the UK gov is walking into an unimaginably huge I.T. disaster. Meanwhile, the French and Germans are doing their best to start a grassroots Linux industry, independent of Microsoft - which ultimately will have spin-off companies that'll benefit the French and German economies. The UK strategy will ultimately result in a de-skilling of the UK workforce, badly prepared for the enivitable Chinese technical onslaught that is surely coming. I really must brush up on my French and get that property in the south of France! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 very scarey stuff, considering its the health sector in the UK. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Surely this just means that we can adopt the MS fix in healthcare... turn it off, turn it back on again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 Just imagine you are in intensive care-beep, beep and the computer crashes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samael26 Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 a lot of valid points there gmac. sometimes i feel that the UK gov is walking into an unimaginably huge I.T. disaster. Meanwhile, the French and Germans are doing their best to start a grassroots Linux industry, independent of Microsoft - which ultimately will have spin-off companies that'll benefit the French and German economies. The UK strategy will ultimately result in a de-skilling of the UK workforce, badly prepared for the enivitable Chinese technical onslaught that is surely coming. I really must brush up on my French and get that property in the south of France! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Welcome to the south of France, my friend, if ever you feel like coming and settling there, though I like Scotland it's much warmer down here ! Cheers ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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