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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