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Love: The competition is not Red Hat
News On the evening of Wednesday 29 May four Linux companies -- Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva -- signed an agreement to create a single Linux distribution for servers. Caldera's distribution team has been merged with Suse's distribution team...
[May 30, 2002, 16:48]
UnitedLinux responds to licensing concerns
News Conectiva, one of the four members contributing to the upcoming UnitedLinux operating system distribution, has moved to reassure developers that the consortium is following standard open-source practices, despite the introduction of a "closed...
[September 23, 2002, 16:23]
Mandrakesoft makes acquisition
News French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft is to acquire its Brazilian counterpart Conectiva, the French vendor announced on Thursday. Conectiva, founded in 1995, employs 60 people and has offices across Brazil.
[February 24, 2005, 15:40]
HP to sell Linux PCs across Latin America
News Mandriva, the company formed when the French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft merged with its Brazilian counterpart Conectiva last year, said it will work with HP on sales, support and marketing in "all Latin American territories", including Brazil...
[January 18, 2006, 17:10]
UnitedLinux builds developers' toolkit
News The consortium of four Linux sellers -- SuSE, SCO Group, Turbolinux and Conectiva -- introduced a developer site on Wednesday, where programmers can find tools to create and test software for UnitedLinux's version of the open-source operating system.
[January 24, 2003, 13:54]
Consortium to push Debian to the fore
News Brazilian vendor Conectiva, French vendor Mandrakesoft, Asian vendor Turbolinux and Progeny joined forces in November last year to create the Linux Core Consortium (LCC), which planned to create a core version of Linux, which each company would...
[July 26, 2005, 18:10]
UnitedLinux prepares first beta
News UnitedLinux, the project uniting the operating system software of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, said it will begin beta-testing its new distribution in the next two weeks. Those improvements include better support for Asian...
[August 14, 2002, 13:49]
Mandrakesoft gets a new name
News In the wake of a trademark lawsuit and its acquisition of Conectiva, Linux seller Mandrakesoft is renaming itself Mandriva. The companies announced their intent to merge in February and completed the transaction 30 March.
[April 8, 2005, 17:40]
Mandriva aims for the enterprise
Talkback From the article: "Last year it acquired Brazil's Conectiva, increasing its presence in the Asian market. Ouch!
[September 22, 2006, 12:34]
Linux vendors move to standard platform
News As reported earlier by ZDNet UK, US companies Caldera International and Turbolinux, Germany's SuSE Linux and Brazil's Conectiva said that by the end of this year they will shift their product lines to focus on a uniform Linux distribution called...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Flaw threatens source of open source
News This problem is known to affect CVS versions shipped by Conectiva, Cray, Debian, IBM, MandrakeSoft, and Red Hat, but others are also probably vulnerable. Conectiva has patches available. Now, it has been found to have a critical vulnerability that...
[February 10, 2003, 12:52]
SuSE: SCO's anti-Linux attacks are 'curious'
News Other UnitedLinux members include Conectiva and Turbolinux. The UnitedLinux code base -- jointly designed and developed by SuSE Linux, Turbolinux, Conectiva and SCO -- will continue to be supported unconditionally by SuSE Linux," Eckert stated.
[May 15, 2003, 13:46]
SuSE feels safe despite SCO legal threat
News It hired about 15 SCO programmers when the two companies, along with Brazilian Linux seller Conectiva and Japanese Turbolinux, formed the UnitedLinux consortium. Conectiva and Turbolinux also have a technology cross-license agreement with SCO that...
[May 6, 2003, 11:26]
Novell reveals Linux philosophy
News This doesn't mean we're not focusing on continuing with the development relationship we have with Turbolinux and Conectiva. That group of four companies -- SuSE, SCO, Conectiva and Turbolinux -- agreed to base their Linux products on SuSE's version...
[January 22, 2004, 8:20]
Mandriva acquires Lycoris Linux assets
News Mandriva, the Linux seller formed by Mandrake's acquisition of Conectiva earlier this year, said on Wednesday it has acquired assets from another smaller company in the same business, Lycoris. Lycoris CEO Joseph Cheek will join Mandriva to develop...
[June 16, 2005, 17:45]
Marcelo Tosatti: Big business and the future of Linux
News Marcelo Tosatti, a Brazilian developer working for Linux distributor Conectiva, took over maintenance of the current "stable" Linux kernel, version 2.4, last autumn. Your company, Conectiva, recently joined with three others to standardise on a...
[July 11, 2002, 9:14]
News Schmooze: Linux unites, partly
News This will see Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux and Conectiva give up their own customised server versions of the open-source operating system in favour of a standardised base, with their own individual add-ons.
[May 31, 2002, 12:37]
UnitedLinux won't tip Red Hat
News Those improvements include better support for Asian language characters from Turbolinux and basic "failover" software from Conectiva, which lets one server take over when another fails. Turbolinux and Caldera International in the United States...
[May 31, 2002, 15:04]
UnitedLinux readies telecom package
News UnitedLinux is a consortium of companies including SuSE, the SCO Group, Turbolinux in Japan and Conectiva in Brazil. The Linux operating system is continuing its spread across industries, with UnitedLinux releasing technology designed for...
[January 16, 2003, 16:16]
UnitedLinux to take software public
News UnitedLinux is based on SuSE Linux's enterprise server, but the public beta will reveal how technology has been integrated from the group's other three partners: Turbolinux, Conectiva and The SCO Group (formerly Caldera).
[September 11, 2002, 16:16]
