Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 00:14 UTC, submitted by Valour
"There are several 'business', 'corporate', or 'professional' desktop operating systems on the market today, all aimed at seeping into large corporations that already use GNU/Linux on servers. It's a pretty good plan, and most of the operating systems in this arena are pretty good - not perfect, but pretty good. Xandros has had such a product for a while now, and it's always been near the top of the list in terms of features and quality. The market is now mature and the products are more competitive, though, and the product formerly known as Xandros Business Desktop, while still a good operating system, isn't keeping up with the industry's pace."
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2005-07-05
It doesn't matter who your target market is, the fact remains that a segment of Linux users exist that don't want to deal with Debian (or at least Debian the way it was a few years ago when Xandros first came out) but were very interested in Corel Linux/Xandros because they basically hoped it would give them what Ubuntu does today; an easy to install and use Debian system.
Xandros had the opportunity, in my opinion, to be where Ubuntu is today, but they messed it up by being incompatible with the Debian repositories. Instead of spending their time custom tweaking KDE, they should have ensured compatibility. I think they would be a lot more successful today if they had.