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MandrakeSoft builds war chest for acquisitions
News Shareholders of MandrakeSoft have approved a share sale to raise as much as $7.3m (£4m), a move that should make it easier for the Paris-based Linux seller to pursue its acquisition strategy. A vote on Monday approved the sale of up to 1 million...
[September 17, 2004, 9:00]
MandrakeSoft releases mobile Linux device
News Linux vendor MandrakeSoft on Thursday announced the release of Globetrotter, a mobile hard drive loaded with its operating system that turns any computer into a Linux box. Clément Contet, a project manager at MandrakeSoft, said that Globetrotter is...
[August 26, 2004, 17:55]
Mandrakesoft on the mend
News French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft announced on Tuesday that its revenue over the last fiscal year has reached €5.18m, representing a 33 percent increase year-on-year. François Bançilhon, the chief executive officer of Mandrakesoft, said the company...
[November 10, 2004, 6:58]
MandrakeSoft eyes up AMD's Opteron
News MandrakeSoft will adapt its distribution of Linux to AMD's next-generation chip platform, the companies said on Thursday. And Mandrakesoft hopes the move will also help drive its Linux operating system into the enterprise.
[June 28, 2002, 17:02]
MandrakeSoft sees revenues jump
News MandrakeSoft, the French Linux distributor, says it is on track to profitability by the end of this year, following a sharp increase in revenues and some cost cutting. The third quarter was the best in MandrakeSoft's history," the company said in a...
[July 23, 2002, 12:05]
MandrakeSoft is first out of the blocks
News But MandrakeSoft is still moving more aggressively. MandrakeSoft, currently under bankruptcy protection, has been jumping to include as rapidly as possible the latest technology, such as AMD's forthcoming Opteron processors.
[March 28, 2003, 10:41]
MandrakeSoft withdraws 'unsafe' Linux update
News MandrakeSoft has advised users of its Mandrake Linux 9.1 operating system not to install a security update released on Sunday due to a serious security bug in the update. If users have already installed the update, MandrakeSoft urged them to...
[July 25, 2003, 14:11]
MandrakeSoft ordered to drop trademark
Talkback I do not know the origins or the meaning of MandrakeSoft's name but it must be extremely difficult, now, to find reasonable and snsible original names which have not, in some way, already been used. If all of these instances are to are to become...
[February 23, 2004, 13:21]
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. Last year, Mandrakesoft appealed a French court's ruling in favour of Hearst Holdings in a trademark dispute; Hearst's King...
[April 8, 2005, 17:40]
MandrakeSoft ordered to drop trademark
Talkback Mandrakesoft web site can no longer be accessed the same thing goes for the club, However they are still charging the $12 membership fee. They were told repetedly in the past to stop the charges, which they did not do and now they are unreachable...
[March 1, 2006, 13:52]
MandrakeSoft packs new Linux distribution with goodies
News European Linux distributor MandrakeSoft released the latest major edition of its operating system, Mandrake Linux 8.0, on Thursday. MandrakeSoft, a French-based company, describes its version of the popular Unix-based operating system as "a user...
[April 19, 2001, 15:40]
Mandrakesoft gives Linux the corporate treatment
News Mandrakesoft has kicked 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 -- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server and Mandrakesoft Corporate Desktop...
[January 4, 2005, 16:30]
Mandrakesoft rocked by executive loss
News Mandrakesoft, which produces the popular Mandrake Linux distribution, confirmed this morning that chief executive Henri Poole and other management officials have left the company. Responding to rumours that the company was set to lay off its Linux...
[May 23, 2001, 15:20]
MandrakeSoft clears up downloads confusion
News Linux distributor MandrakeSoft officially announced the availability of StarOffice 6.0 for Mandrake Club members on Monday, making it the first major Linux distributor to offer the final version of the office suite to its users.
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
MandrakeSoft emerges from bankruptcy
News Shares in Linux developer MandrakeSoft have returned to active trading, as the company prepares to emerge from France's equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. MandrakeSoft said on Friday that its court-appointed administrator has filed a...
[March 10, 2004, 9:05]
Mandrakesoft makes acquisition
News French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft is to acquire its Brazilian counterpart Conectiva, the French vendor announced on Thursday. Mandrakesoft is to acquire all of Conectiva's shares in a €1.79m all-stock deal.
[February 24, 2005, 15:40]
MandrakeSoft emerges from bankruptcy
Talkback Its good to see that Mandrakesoft (or should I say the administrator) has handled bankruptcy so well. Back in 2000 when they were kind of like a typical dot-com style company spending millions on development and expansion while giving almost...
[March 11, 2004, 11:57]
MandrakeSoft adds office software to Linux
News MandrakeSoft released a new version of its Linux operating system distribution for servers and workstations on Thursday, with improvements to make the software more stable and flexible, as well as easier to install and use.
[March 19, 2002, 11:45]
MandrakeSoft flirts with non-open source
News MandrakeSoft has taken a step away from the open-source philosophy, changing licence terms for a Linux-based firewall so customers that want product support may no longer install the software on as many computers as they wish.
[December 17, 2002, 7:50]
MandrakeSoft shakes off bankruptcy
News A French court has approved MandrakeSoft's plan to exit bankruptcy protection, in a boost that accompanies a return to profitability for the Linux seller. The court approved a plan under which liabilities of 4.1m euros (£2.2m) will be repaid to...
[March 31, 2004, 9:10]
