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'''Mandriva S.A.''' is a publicly traded [[Linux]] and [[open source]] [[software company]] with its headquarters in [[Paris]], [[France]] and development centers in Metz, France and in [[Curitiba]], [[Brazil]]. Mandriva, S.A. is the creator and maintainer of the Mandriva Linux distribution and other enterprise software such as Pulse
'''Mandriva S.A.''' was a [[Public company|public]] [[software company]] specializing in [[Linux]] and [[open-source software]]. Its [[corporate headquarters]] was in [[Paris]], and it had development centers in [[Metz]], France<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://fr.slideshare.net/mandriva/mandriva-intechinfo#btnNext |title=Presentation, slide 4 |access-date=2012-11-30 |archive-date=2016-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622074545/http://fr.slideshare.net/mandriva/mandriva-intechinfo#btnNext |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Curitiba]], Brazil. Mandriva, S.A. was the developer and maintainer of a [[Linux distribution]] called [[Mandriva Linux]], as well as various [[enterprise software]] products. Mandriva was a founding member of the [[Desktop Linux Consortium]].


==History==
==History==
Mandriva, S.A. began as MandrakeSoft in 1998.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Linux in France: Guess MandrakeSoft's Next Move |url=http://linuxgazette.net/issue53/correa3.html |date=May 2000 |issue=53 |journal=Linux Gazette |access-date=2007-05-27 |first=Fernando Ribeiro |last=Corrêa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421104201/https://linuxgazette.net/issue53/correa3.html |archive-date=2007-04-21 }}</ref>
Mandriva, S.A. began as MandrakeSoft in 1998.[1] It currently has about 70 employees (45 of whom are engineers) and has offices in France, the USA, and Brazil.[2][3] The company sells its products in more than 140 countries and estimates the number of Mandriva Linux users to be approximately 3 million, according to mandriva.com website.


MandrakeSoft changed its name to "Mandriva" after losing litigation to the Hearst Corporation over the name "Mandrake." The Hearst Corporation had a comic strip called Mandrake the Magician. The litigation concluded in February 2004, and appeals expired in early 2005. In 2005, MandrakeSoft acquired the assets of Lycoris, and purchased Conectiva. The name "Mandriva" was selected to reflect the names "MandrakeSoft" and "Conectiva."[4]
In February 2004, following lengthy litigation with the [[Hearst Corporation]] over the name "Mandrake" (the Hearst Corporation owned a comic strip called ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]''), MandrakeSoft was required to change its name. Following the acquisition of the Brazilian Linux distribution [[Conectiva]] in February 2005, the company's name was changed on 7 April 2005 to "Mandriva" to reflect the names "MandrakeSoft" and "Conectiva."<ref>{{cite press release |title=PR: Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change |url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/news/2005040701826NWBZMD |date=2005-04-07 |publisher=Mandriva Linux |access-date=2014-05-02 |archive-date=2018-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414234716/https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/2005040701826nwbzmd |url-status=dead }}</ref>


On October 4, 2004, MandrakeSoft acquired the professional support company Edge IT, which focused on the corporate market in France and had 6 employees.<ref>{{cite news|title=MandrakeSoft Back in the Black |url=http://www.opensource.sys-con.com/read/47298.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190036/http://www.opensource.sys-con.com/read/47298.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-09-30 |date=2004-12-04 |publisher=Enterprise Open Source Magazine |access-date=2007-05-27 |first=Maureen |last=O'Gara }}</ref>
On 2008-01-16, Mandriva and Turbolinux announced a partnership to create a lab named Manbo-Labs, to share resources and technology to release a common base system for both companies' Linux distributions.[5]


On June 15, 2005, Mandriva acquired [[Lycoris (company)|Lycoris]] (formerly, Redmond Linux Corporation).
On 2010-09-18, a group of former Mandriva employees and community supporters announced their intention to fork Mandriva Linux and create the Mageia Linux distribution and organization, in response to the liquidation of "Edge-IT". The liquidation of the Mandriva-owned company resulted in layoffs of some employees who had worked on Mandriva Linux. It was the result of a deep disagreement on the direction of Mandriva. The company decided to move most development of the desktop distribution to South America, where it was mostly sold. At the same time, European development focused on servers and professional software development, leading to the releases of Pulse2 1.3 and MES5.2 in 2011.


On October 5, 2006, Mandriva signed an agreement to acquire Linbox, a Linux enterprise software infrastructure company. The agreement included the acquisition of all shares of Linbox for a total of $1.739 million in Mandriva stock, plus an earn out of up to $401,000 based on the 2006 Linbox financials.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mandriva Acquires Linbox for €1.3 million|url=http://www.boursier.com/vals/FR/mandriva-acquisition-de-l-editeur-linbox-pour-1-36-me-news-204323.htm|publisher=boursier.com|access-date=2007-12-12|archive-date=2009-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804171703/http://www.boursier.com/vals/FR/mandriva-acquisition-de-l-editeur-linbox-pour-1-36-me-news-204323.htm|url-status=live}}{{in lang|fr}}<!--French--></ref>
On 2011-03-18, Mandriva will officially change its company structure to a limited liability company with a management board and supervisory board (French: Société Anonyme à Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance). There will be two Russians and one French person: Leonid Reiman, Arthur Akopian, and Bertrand Glineur. Arnaud Laprévote will remain president of the management board ("directoire"). The main shareholder will be LinLux, which is owned by the Ocam fund, which itself is owned by the French bank Bryan Garnier.


In 2007, Mandriva reached a deal with the Government of Nigeria to put their operating system on 17,000 school computers, in a deal that almost ended up with its system being replaced with the one from Microsoft.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-03 |title=Microsoft Denies Sabotaging Mandriva Linux PC Deal - Slashdot |url=https://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/11/03/0413214/microsoft-denies-sabotaging-mandriva-linux-pc-deal?sdsrc=rel |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=linux.slashdot.org |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029210605/https://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/11/03/0413214/microsoft-denies-sabotaging-mandriva-linux-pc-deal?sdsrc=rel |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mandriva: Microsoft changed Nigerian minds over Linux |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/mandriva-microsoft-changed-nigerian-minds-over-linux/ |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=ZDNET |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029210604/https://www.zdnet.com/article/mandriva-microsoft-changed-nigerian-minds-over-linux/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kirk |first=Jeremy |date=2007-11-09 |title=Nigeria favors Mandriva over Microsoft after all |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2539734/nigeria-favors-mandriva-over-microsoft-after-all.html |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=Computerworld |language=en |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029210603/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2539734/nigeria-favors-mandriva-over-microsoft-after-all.html |url-status=live }}</ref>


On January 16, 2008, Mandriva and [[Turbolinux]] announced a partnership to create a lab named Manbo-Labs, to share resources and technology to release a common base system for both companies' Linux distributions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kerner |first=Sean Michael |date=2008-01-18 |title=Mandriva and Turbolinux Join Forces to Unite Linux |url=https://www.internetnews.com/developer/mandriva-and-turbolinux-join-forces-to-unite-linux/ |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=Internet News |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029210604/https://www.internetnews.com/developer/mandriva-and-turbolinux-join-forces-to-unite-linux/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
At the end of the first semester 2012, the shareholding structure has been entirely changed and the company recapitalized with a massive injection of 4 million Euros. Jean-Manuel Croset, a Swiss native, is running the company as CEO. The company has repositionned itself towards enterprise and cloud offerings while remaining strongly rooted in Free Software. The Mandriva Linux distribution is being set up as an independent foundation with Mandriva S.A contributing but a small fraction of the efforts and resources to the community.


Although Mandriva's operating system eventually became a significant entity in the data center, the company's operating margins were thin and by 2012 the company was on the brink of bankruptcy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-company-spent-17-years-171430998.html|title=A Linux company that spent 17 years competing with Windows is officially over|access-date=2017-01-17|archive-date=2018-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619040112/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-company-spent-17-years-171430998.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 30, 2012, Mandriva announced that an external entity bid{{Clarify|Which external etity bid?|date=March 2014}} was rejected by a minority share holder and the deal did not go through. At the end of the first semester 2012, a solution to the situation that had appeared in January of the same year was found and a settlement achieved.{{Citation needed|date=January 2015}} Mandriva was subsequently owned by several different shareholders.<ref>{{cite web|title=Not This Time |url=http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/01/30/not-this-time/ |date=2012-01-30 |access-date=2012-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131012854/http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/01/30/not-this-time/ |archive-date=2012-01-31 }}</ref>
==Innovations==


Mandriva filed for [[administrative receivership]] in early 2015, and was [[liquidation|liquidated]] on May 22, 2015.<ref name=liquidation>{{cite web|last1=Michael|first1=Larabel|title=Bye Bye Mandriva, She's Being Liquidated|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mandriva-Liquidated|website=Phoronix|access-date=26 May 2015|date=26 May 2015|archive-date=26 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526194105/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mandriva-Liquidated|url-status=live}}</ref> The Mandriva Linux distribution continues to survive as [[OpenMandriva Lx]]. Notable forks include [[Mageia|Mageia Linux]] and [[ROSA Linux]].
Mandriva has, like other Linux distributions, created several applications that give it a distinctive feel. Probably the most notable are the urpmi package management tools and the graphical system configuration tools in the Mandriva Control Center. Mandriva made one notable inroad into the semantic desktop with the Nepomuk technology.

Another example is transfugdrake, a tool designed for easy migration of documents and settings from Microsoft Windows to Mandriva Linux.[6][7] It is a front end to Migration Assistant.[8]

==Financial state==

Shares of Mandrakesoft used to be traded on the Euronext Marché Libre exchange (ISIN code MLMAN) and on the US OTC Bulletin Board (Stock symbol MDKFF).[10]
After a troubled financial history, the company got recapitalized in 2012 and by the end of that year got rid of most of its debt. The new product portfolio and the different positionning are deemed to bring the company back on track for 2013.


==Mandriva Club==
==Mandriva Club==
In addition to selling Linux distributions through its online store and authorized resellers, Mandriva previously sold subscriptions to the Mandriva Club. There were several levels of membership, at costs ranging from US$66 or €60 per year (as of 2007) to €600 per year.[12]
In addition to selling Linux distributions through its online store and authorized resellers, Mandriva previously sold subscriptions to the Mandriva Club. There were several levels of membership, at costs ranging from US$66 or €60 per year (as of 2007) to €600 per year.<ref name=AboutClub>{{cite web
|url=http://www.mandriva.com/en/community/resources/club
|title=Welcome to the Mandriva Linux Users Club Page
|access-date=2007-10-03
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002114102/http://www.mandriva.com/en/community/resources/club
|archive-date=2007-10-02
|url-status=live
}}</ref>


Club members gained access to the Club website, additional mirrors and torrents for downloading, free downloads of its boxed products (depending on membership level), interim releases of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and additional software updates. For example, only Gold-level and higher members could download Powerpack+ editions.
Club members gained access to the Club website, additional mirrors and torrents for downloading, free downloads of its boxed products (depending on membership level), interim releases of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and additional software updates. For example, only Gold-level and higher members could download Powerpack+ editions.
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Many Mandriva commercial products came with short-term membership in the club; however, Mandriva Linux was completely usable without a club membership.
Many Mandriva commercial products came with short-term membership in the club; however, Mandriva Linux was completely usable without a club membership.


When Mandriva Linux 2008.0 was released in October 2007, Mandriva made club membership free of charge to all comers, splitting download subscriptions off into a separate service.[13]
When Mandriva Linux 2008.0 was released in October 2007, Mandriva made club membership free of charge to all comers, splitting download subscriptions off into a separate service.

Mandriva also has a Mandriva Corporate Club for larger organizations.[14]

==Acquisitions==
On October 4, 2004, Mandrakesoft acquired the professional support company Edge IT, which focused on the corporate market in France and had 6 employees.[15]

On February 24, 2005, Mandrakesoft acquired Brazilian Linux distributor Conectiva for €1.79 million (2.3 million US dollars at the time).[16]

On June 15, 2005, Mandriva acquired Lycoris (formerly, Redmond Linux Corporation).[17]

On October 5, 2006, Mandriva signed an agreement to acquire Linbox, a Linux enterprise software infrastructure company. The agreement included the acquisition of all shares of Linbox for a total of $1.739 million in Mandriva stock, plus an earn out of up to $401,000 based on the 2006 Linbox financials.[18]

On January 12, 2012, Mandriva announced that an external entity wished to acquire Mandriva. [19]

On January 30, 2012, Mandriva announced that the external entity bid was rejected by a minority share holder and the deal did not go through. [20]

At the end of the first semester 2012, a solution to the situation that had appeared in January of the same year was found and a settlement achieved. Mandriva is now owned by several different shareholders and entirely recapitalized.


Mandriva also had a Mandriva Corporate Club for larger organizations.


== Products ==
== Products ==
{{expand list|date=June 2013}}
Former Products
;[[Mandriva Linux]]
Mandriva Linux - Free of cost versions include Mandriva Free (open source version) and Mandriva One (Live CD with some proprietary components). The paid version is called Powerpack and includes licensed codecs for common audio and video file formats, Google applications and 3 months of web support.
:A Linux distribution
Mandriva Directory Server - An open source LDAP server that aims to be easy to administer via a web GUI. Similar in aims to Fedora Directory Server
;Pulse²
:Open-source software for application deployment, inventory, and maintenance of an IT network, also available as SaaS version as of November 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Announces-Pulse-2-v1-2-103550.shtml |title=Presentation of Pulse2 on SoftPedia |access-date=2012-11-30 |archive-date=2018-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324223733/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Announces-Pulse-2-v1-2-103550.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
;Mandriva Business Server
:A Linux-based server operating system
;Mandriva Class
:E-learning software enabling distributed, long-distance virtual classrooms.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Announces-Mandriva-Class-291498.shtml |title=Presentation of MandrivaClass on SoftPedia |access-date=2012-11-30 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006022516/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Announces-Mandriva-Class-291498.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>


==See also==
New Products:
{{Portal-inline|Free Software}}
Pulse: an IT infrastructure management solution that is also available as SaaS version as of November 2012.
Mandriva Enterprise Server: a corporate, Linux based server platform, soon to be replaced with the announced Mandriva Business Server. The server comes not just with the standard Linux tools but also with advanced interfaces for configuration and specific packaging of VoIP, IM, mail, calendaring tools.
MandrivaClass: an e-learning solution enabling long distance, distributed virtual classrooms.


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva official website]

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Latest revision as of 04:09, 28 November 2024

This article is about the company. For the Linux distribution produced by this company, see Mandriva Linux.
Mandriva S.A.
Company typeSociété Anonyme
IndustrySoftware industry
Founded1998 (MandrakeSoft)
2005 (Conectiva)
Defunct2015 (2015)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
ProductsMandriva Linux
Websitewww.mandriva.com/en/ at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2015)

Mandriva S.A. was a public software company specializing in Linux and open-source software. Its corporate headquarters was in Paris, and it had development centers in Metz, France[1] and Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A. was the developer and maintainer of a Linux distribution called Mandriva Linux, as well as various enterprise software products. Mandriva was a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.

History

[edit]

Mandriva, S.A. began as MandrakeSoft in 1998.[2]

In February 2004, following lengthy litigation with the Hearst Corporation over the name "Mandrake" (the Hearst Corporation owned a comic strip called Mandrake the Magician), MandrakeSoft was required to change its name. Following the acquisition of the Brazilian Linux distribution Conectiva in February 2005, the company's name was changed on 7 April 2005 to "Mandriva" to reflect the names "MandrakeSoft" and "Conectiva."[3]

On October 4, 2004, MandrakeSoft acquired the professional support company Edge IT, which focused on the corporate market in France and had 6 employees.[4]

On June 15, 2005, Mandriva acquired Lycoris (formerly, Redmond Linux Corporation).

On October 5, 2006, Mandriva signed an agreement to acquire Linbox, a Linux enterprise software infrastructure company. The agreement included the acquisition of all shares of Linbox for a total of $1.739 million in Mandriva stock, plus an earn out of up to $401,000 based on the 2006 Linbox financials.[5]

In 2007, Mandriva reached a deal with the Government of Nigeria to put their operating system on 17,000 school computers, in a deal that almost ended up with its system being replaced with the one from Microsoft.[6][7][8]

On January 16, 2008, Mandriva and Turbolinux announced a partnership to create a lab named Manbo-Labs, to share resources and technology to release a common base system for both companies' Linux distributions.[9]

Although Mandriva's operating system eventually became a significant entity in the data center, the company's operating margins were thin and by 2012 the company was on the brink of bankruptcy.[10] On January 30, 2012, Mandriva announced that an external entity bid[clarification needed] was rejected by a minority share holder and the deal did not go through. At the end of the first semester 2012, a solution to the situation that had appeared in January of the same year was found and a settlement achieved.[citation needed] Mandriva was subsequently owned by several different shareholders.[11]

Mandriva filed for administrative receivership in early 2015, and was liquidated on May 22, 2015.[12] The Mandriva Linux distribution continues to survive as OpenMandriva Lx. Notable forks include Mageia Linux and ROSA Linux.

Mandriva Club

[edit]

In addition to selling Linux distributions through its online store and authorized resellers, Mandriva previously sold subscriptions to the Mandriva Club. There were several levels of membership, at costs ranging from US$66 or €60 per year (as of 2007) to €600 per year.[13]

Club members gained access to the Club website, additional mirrors and torrents for downloading, free downloads of its boxed products (depending on membership level), interim releases of the Mandriva Linux distribution, and additional software updates. For example, only Gold-level and higher members could download Powerpack+ editions.

Many Mandriva commercial products came with short-term membership in the club; however, Mandriva Linux was completely usable without a club membership.

When Mandriva Linux 2008.0 was released in October 2007, Mandriva made club membership free of charge to all comers, splitting download subscriptions off into a separate service.

Mandriva also had a Mandriva Corporate Club for larger organizations.

Products

[edit]
Mandriva Linux
A Linux distribution
Pulse²
Open-source software for application deployment, inventory, and maintenance of an IT network, also available as SaaS version as of November 2012.[14]
Mandriva Business Server
A Linux-based server operating system
Mandriva Class
E-learning software enabling distributed, long-distance virtual classrooms.[15]

See also

[edit]

Free Software portal

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Presentation, slide 4". Archived from the original on 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  2. ^ Corrêa, Fernando Ribeiro (May 2000). "Linux in France: Guess MandrakeSoft's Next Move". Linux Gazette (53). Archived from the original on 2007-04-21. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  3. ^ "PR: Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change" (Press release). Mandriva Linux. 2005-04-07. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
  4. ^ O'Gara, Maureen (2004-12-04). "MandrakeSoft Back in the Black". Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  5. ^ "Mandriva Acquires Linbox for €1.3 million". boursier.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2007-12-12.(in French)
  6. ^ "Microsoft Denies Sabotaging Mandriva Linux PC Deal - Slashdot". linux.slashdot.org. 2007-11-03. Archived from the original on 2023-10-29. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  7. ^ "Mandriva: Microsoft changed Nigerian minds over Linux". ZDNET. Archived from the original on 2023-10-29. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  8. ^ Kirk, Jeremy (2007-11-09). "Nigeria favors Mandriva over Microsoft after all". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 2023-10-29. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  9. ^ Kerner, Sean Michael (2008-01-18). "Mandriva and Turbolinux Join Forces to Unite Linux". Internet News. Archived from the original on 2023-10-29. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  10. ^ "A Linux company that spent 17 years competing with Windows is officially over". Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  11. ^ "Not This Time". 2012-01-30. Archived from the original on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  12. ^ Michael, Larabel (26 May 2015). "Bye Bye Mandriva, She's Being Liquidated". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Welcome to the Mandriva Linux Users Club Page". Archived from the original on 2007-10-02. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
  14. ^ "Presentation of Pulse2 on SoftPedia". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
  15. ^ "Presentation of MandrivaClass on SoftPedia". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
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