Which was the biggest business and engineering challenge with the development of Xandros 2.0?
Ming Poon: We did not run into many business development challenges as many other ISVs and technology partners were very eager to work with us. The only challenge was to set stringent standards for selecting our partners. We spent a lot of time in evaluating a many software packages from potential partners to make sure that they were ‘ready for prime time’ with desktop users before even considering them for our software bundles or Xandros Networks offerings. In a number of cases we gave feedback to the ISVs and continue to help them address the issues so that we can move forward with them. We want our users to have quality time with Xandros and we certainly don’t want them to waste a lot of time in downloading tons of junk that does not measure up to the Xandros experience. To us, quality matters more than the quantity that you can find in some fee-based Linux software warehouses out there. On the engineering front, one of the biggest challenges in V2 was to come up with the design and
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