| | Datamonitor - Mandriva accelerates Linux desktop push with Lycoris buy - News |
 | | Lycoris was founded in 2000 by Joseph Cheek, a former employee of Linuxcare (senior Linux consultant) and Microsoft (network and systems tester), to provide a desktop version of Linux that would be more familiar to Windows shops. |
 | | A few weeks later, Lycoris took over the SME Server project, which was administered at contribs.org, and probably hoped to create a Linux server that had the look and feel of Windows Server 2003, much as Desktop/LX has the feel of Windows XP (to the extent that is possible with Linux interfaces). |
 | | According to Mandriva, Lycoris had nearly 20,000 individuals who paid for support for Desktop/LX, and the company further estimated that several hundred thousand users were currently using one or another version of Lycoris' software. |
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