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Mandrakesoft gives Linux the corporate treatment

...off 2005 by releasing two enterprise-class open source products. According to Gael Duval, co-founder of the France-based Linux distributor, the two products... Read more

4 January, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

Critics pour scorn on Ballmer patent 'FUD'

...its patent portfolio to defend customers who used its open source software. Gael Duval, founder of Linux vendor Mandrakesoft, accused Ballmer of scare tactics, and... Read more

18 November, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue and Graeme Wearden

Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux

...such comprehensive offering is available for Linux or open source," Ballmer added. Gael Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, believes that Ballmer's email is indicative... Read more

27 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden and Ingrid Marson

Mandriva co-founder booted from Linux firm

Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees who... Read more

16 March, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Mandriva aims for the enterprise

...relentless cost-cutting — the most recent round of layoffs claimed co-founder Gael Duval among others. Now Mandriva is hoping a completely new product lineup... Read more

20 September, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Mandriva virtualises enterprise server

...company has continued to struggle financially, however, and laid off co-founder Gael Duval in March of this year following a poor quarter. Besides competition... Read more

18 September, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Battle continues over true cost of Linux

An analyst firm claims that Windows offers equal or better TCO than Linux, but open source companies say the survey has ignored some of the advantages of Linux Read more

7 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Mandrakesoft makes acquisition

...will help give the combined company more heft, though Mandrakesoft co-founder Gael Duval has tempered his initial expectations. "This won't elevate us to... Read more

24 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'

...any other platform. Linux vendors Mandrakesoft and Red Hat rejected these claims. Gael Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, said that although interoperability tends to be... Read more

7 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft debases Linux standards

...and the number of derivatives of Unix that now exist." In response Gael Duval, the co-founder of the France-based Linux distributor Mandrakesoft, pointed... Read more

1 February, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email

...Microsoft's site, not just Microsoft's chosen sound bites," he says. Gael Duval, the founder of Mandrakesoft, is less forgiving and sums up Microsoft... Read more

28 October, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

EU votes through software patent changes

Update: After a stalled effort on Monday, the European Council has approved controversial changes to a draft directive, meaning that Europe is now likely to see widespread patenting of software programs Read more

18 May, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

SuSE: SCO's anti-Linux attacks are 'curious'

Update: SuSE says it will continue supporting the UnitedLinux code base despite SCO's attacks on Linux's legal legitimacy, as Red Hat and MandrakeSoft say they are not yet concerned Read more

15 May, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

MandrakeSoft is first out of the blocks

...use and read data from an NTFS partition, said Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval in an email interview. However, it can't yet write files... Read more

28 March, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Linux maker Mandrake: We need cash

...us: We have a very big short-term cash issue," co-founder Gael Duval said in a statement. MandrakeSoft isn't the only company to... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

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