Yo! I guess this article [1] is at least worth a Debian times item: Supporting Debian brought $25 million in directly related sales in EMEA. +++ /title/Supporting Debian makes sense, commercially speaking./title/ <p>According to Jeffrey Wade, worldwide open source marketing manager at <a href="http://www.hp.com/";>HP</a>, supporting Debian for its Proliant and Blade Systems servers was a surprising commercial success: $25 million in hardware sales for 2006 in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) were directly related to HP starting to offer official support for Debian sarge.</p> <p>In the same <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481";>article</a> on InternetNews, Wade also assured that official support for Debian etch will be forthcoming soon after the latters release.</p> +++ Probably needs some polishing, I'm away partying for the next week. cheers -- vbi [1] http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481 -- A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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