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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    LINUX-MANDRAKE TO SUPPORT KOFFICE PROJECT
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-08-12 11:42:11
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MandrakeSoft, the company behind the popular Linux-Mandrake Linux
Operating System will finance David Faure, KDE-core-developer to work for
the KOffice and KDE projects. 

According to Gaël Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, "Mandrake owes a lot
of its success to KDE and the Free Software movement. We are very happy to
help back and contribute to the enhancement of development. We invite all
the companies who profit from Open Source Software to support KOffice by
funding dedicated developers. "The more good developers join the KOffice
project, the faster it will be ready for the users."

According to David Faure "KOffice is an integrated office suite based on
the KDE libraries. It currently includes an enhanced wordprocessor with
desktop publishing functionality , a spreadsheet, a presentation
application, a vector drawing program, a diag ram program, a formula
editor and an image viewer. KOffice makes use of the most advanced Object
Model in the OSS world. Thanks to this, it is possible to embed any
KOffice component in a different KOffice application. This is realized
using the KOM/OpenP arts object model. Of course the KOffice is, as the
whole KDE project, a free project which is released under the GNU GPL. 

David Faure has been a core developer for the KDE project for two years.
He is maintainer of the KDE file manager (kfm) and its OpenParts-based
rewrite (konqueror). He has also participated in the development of the
KDE libraries, including KOM/OpenParts, as well as the development of
KOffice itself.

About KDE:
KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to
create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment
employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface.  In addition,
many KDE users have assisted in the preparat ion of new releases by
providing constructive feedback, suggestions and software patches.  KDE is
working proof of the power of the open source software development model. 

About MandrakeSoft

Founded in 1998, MandrakeSoft publishes the popular Linux Mandrake
operating system, which is compatible with the leading Red Hat Linux (tm) 
distribution. Linux Mandrake 6.0 features the "Mandrake touch" 
MandrakeSoft's signature graphical interfaces that give users selected
desktop icons including easy CD-Rom and floppy disk access and easy
Internet upgrades using the "Mandrake Update" icon. Linux Mandrake also
features Pentium optimization, scalable font support and KDE integration.
MandrakeSoft is also the originator of several other innovative Open
Source cooperative projects that focus on ease of use, including Lothar,
an automatic hardware configuration, Linux4Windows, which allows users to
install and use Linux on top of a Windows partition, a nd the DiskDrake
hard-drive partitioning tool. 

LinuxMall, the largest online reseller of Linux products, reports that
Linux Mandrake was its bestselling box version in July. LinuxWorld also
selected Linux Mandrake as a finalist in three categories: Product of the
Year, Distribution/Client and Distribution/Server. 

        KOffice: http://koffice.kde.org
        KDE: http://www.kde.org
        Linux-Mandrake: http://www.linux-mandrake.com

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