[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Thu Sep 30 15:37:34 CEST 2010

+Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 15:34:26, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> 
+> Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 13:21:04, Graham Lauder a écrit :
+> > Our principle competitor, MS competes against the Linux universe as a whole 
+> > but other distros compete for the MS user base aimed at particular 
+> > Demographics. For instance: 
+> > OpenSUSE aims at the "Power User" Market   
+> > Ubuntu aims at the young individual end of the market
+> > CentOS at Community enterprise and Not For Profits
+> > Fedora at the Computing Professional
+> > 
+> > Mageia could therefore aim at the Young Married professional market, being the 
+> > Distro that could be installed on the home computer and geared so that the 
+> > whole family could use it.
+> 
+> I don't know whether I agree or not, but I would like to point out that to me Mandriva is/was et Mageia will/could be a generalist distribution.
+> 
+> Which means :
+> - suitable for power users (if one can count me in this category, Mandriva is my desktop of choice)
+> - suitable for your individuals (My young brother uses Mandriva Linux)
+> - suitable for community enterprise and for professionnal actors (We've got more than 400 Mandriva Free servers in production in french hospitals, and several workstations here)
+
++ suitable for family of course : parental control in MCC, my wife uses it without any problem...
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+Regards
+
+Samuel
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