AXA Placement Innovation, the investment fund of AXA, has
added fuel to the open-source operating system (OS) movement by
completing an equity investment in Linux vendor
MandrakeSoft.”
“We believe that MandrakeSoft is poised to be a dominant player
in the emerging but potentially huge Linux market,” commented Peter
Bieliczky of the AXA Investment Managers Group. “MandrakeSoft has
evolved very quickly since its inception a few months ago and we
are strong believers in the Linux-Mandrake strategy and team.” AXA
Placement Innovation specializes in backing up-and-coming high tech
firms…”
“The Complete Linux product by MandrakeSoft “does an excellent
job of smoothing out some of the rough edges of the Red Hat 6.0
distribution,” commented the editors of LinuxWorld. “What you end
up with is a better Red Hat 6.0 than Red Hat 6.0 itself.”