The Linux Beacon: Collax Gears Up for North American Linux Launch

"Years of consolidation in the commercial Linux distribution business and a proliferation of Linux vendors who are playing Linux from many different angles, might make you think that the market was saturated with distributors and that there was not a lot of room for new ones to enter. Not so, says Olaf Jacobi, chief executive officer of Collax, who is packing his bags to move from Germany to Boston as the company gets ready to take Linux to the SMB space.

"Like a number of other Linux vendors before it, Collax is trying to make Linux easier to use and to package it in forms that are best suited to small businesses. Jacobi doesn't like Collax being compared to Red Hat, which he sees as a Linux distributor with products aimed at the Global 2000 companies..."

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