08.27.07
Is that light at the end of the tunnel?
« The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco ». It seams that we should be able to reuse Mark Twain’s joke with Paris instead of SFO. I do not remember seeing such bad weather in the summer: it’s been cold, rainy and miserable. And we know many other parts of globe are suffering from horrible weather conditions: heat wave in the south, floods in the North, not to mention hurricanes.
At the same time, the Mandriva weather has been a little rough over the past quarters, which might have added to the general mood.
So it will soon be time to cheer you up with some good news. We have been kind of quiet recently, which does not mean we have not been active. We have been working hard on our products and services offering and on our sales. On the product side, we listened to all our friends and contributors and to the community. On the sales side, our sales team was on the offensive.
We are not ready to show all the results yet, but most projects are in the works and some sales were closed. So let me give you a preview of some of the things we are planning to announce in the coming months:
- a brand new web site,
- a major restructuring of our consumer product line and of our club offering,
- a nice small hardware deal in an emerging market country with our friends from Santa Clara and against our friends from Redmond,
- a sizable software and services deal in another emerging country,
- a strategic deal with a major player than could have a strong impact on our desktop sales worldwide.
These will not change the situation immediately from stormy weather to bright sunshine, but it will improve it and will be an indication that we are on the right path.
So, stay tuned and we’ll bring you some of those good news fairly soon.
