Open Virtual Desktop
Blog Got a note from Gael duval, founder of Mandrake-Mandriva concerning a new service. Gaël Duval & all the Ulteo Team. Duval may be a bit ahead of the times with his site, but I think it has great potential.
[November 21, 2008, 7:10]
Mandriva co-founder booted from Linux firm
News Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees who lost their jobs at the company after it became unprofitable in its most recent financial quarter. Duval confirmed on Wednesday that he was terminated as part of a layoff that...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Mandrakesoft gives Linux the corporate treatment
News According to Gael Duval, co-founder of the France-based Linux distributor, the two products -- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server and Mandrakesoft Corporate Desktop -- have been developed to make them "enterprise-ready".
[January 4, 2005, 16:30]
Microsoft debases Linux standards
News In response Gael Duval, the co-founder of the France-based Linux distributor Mandrakesoft, pointed out that the latest enterprise distributions from Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft all support Linux Standards Base, showing that the vendors are...
[February 1, 2005, 11:20]
Mandrakesoft makes acquisition
News The consolidation 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 the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet, of course, but this is a...
[February 24, 2005, 15:40]
A new way to use Linux.
Blog Gael Duval, the founder of Mandrake/Mandriva Linux distributions started a new project after his departure, from Mandriva, in 2006. Duval located here: http://www.thejemreport.com/content/view/282/1/ Duval is ahead of his time, but this comes as...
[July 12, 2008, 21:45]
Trendy Solutions… or How Pre-built Open Source Rocks the Crisis
Blog Comment Gael Duval, founder of Mandrake-Mandriva Linux has already gotten the ball rolling. Timely article Alena. SaS, I think, is going to be a big deal, when it matures. Check out his solution at : http://www.ulteo.com/
[November 19, 2008, 13:14]
THE CLOUD
Talkback Gael Duval, one of the founders of Mandrake/Mandriva Linux, has established, what I would consider, an actual cloud experience. Located at http://www.ulteo.com/ It is a complete operating system and storage online for use by anyone.
[August 6, 2009, 16:01]
Linux maker Mandrake: We need cash
News A very difficult time has arrived for us: We have a very big short-term cash issue," co-founder Gael Duval said in a statement. Linux seller MandrakeSoft issued a plea for cash Friday, encouraging people to buy products, MandrakeClub memberships or...
[December 23, 2002, 8:41]
Mandriva aims for the enterprise
News Recent quarters have seen the company recovering, mainly as a result of relentless cost-cutting — the most recent round of layoffs claimed co-founder Gael Duval among others. Mandriva has been no stranger to trouble since the dot-com crash of 2001.
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
MandrakeSoft is first out of the blocks
News Mandrake can carve off a piece of an NTFS, or NT file system, disk partition for its own use and read data from an NTFS partition, said Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval in an email interview. Red Hat is becoming more aggressive with its enthusiast...
[March 28, 2003, 10:41]
Mandriva virtualises enterprise server
News The company has continued to struggle financially, however, and laid off co-founder Gael Duval in March of this year following a poor quarter. Mandriva, formerly MandrakeSoft, has released Corporate Server 4.0, its latest bid to move beyond its...
[September 18, 2006, 12:50]
Critics pour scorn on Ballmer patent 'FUD'
News Gael Duval, founder of Linux vendor Mandrakesoft, accused Ballmer of scare tactics, and argued that Windows users were just as much at risk as Linux users. They do whatever they can to fight against Linux," Duval said.
[November 18, 2004, 16:55]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
News Gael Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, believes that Ballmer's email is indicative of a change of strategy from Microsoft. We think that Microsoft is trying a new strategy to fight against Linux by spreading much FUD [Fear Uncertainty and Doubt...
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
MandrakeSoft flirts with non-open source
News Our goal is also to sell directly more expensive products to customers," said MandrakeSoft co-founder Gael Duval, adding that the product is still priced to undercut competitors such as Check Point Software.
[December 17, 2002, 7:50]
EU votes through software patent changes
News In a letter to open-source software Web site LWN, the founder of MandrakeSoft Linux, Gael Duval, said the redrafted proposal was written by people with a common interest in allowing software to be patented.
[May 18, 2004, 13:55]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
News Gael Duval, co-founder of Mandrakesoft, said that although interoperability tends to be higher within a closed, proprietary system such as Windows, Linux is interoperable with other systems, which is an advantage for companies that have a mixed...
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
MandrakeSoft clears up downloads confusion
News Some confusion among Club members was "prompted by a press release that was released prematurely, which mentioned StarOffice 6.0 and the Mandrake Users Club," said MandrakeSoft co-founder Gael Duval in a statement posted on Monday on MandrakeSoft...
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
SuSE: SCO's anti-Linux attacks are 'curious'
News Gael Duval, co-founder of MandrakeSoft, which develops Mandrake Linux, said that it was impossible to come to any conclusions in the absence of any details about what Linux code might be infringing SCO's rights.
[May 15, 2003, 13:46]



