History
Mandriva, S.A. began as MandrakeSoft in 1998. It currently has about 70 employees (45 of whom are engineers) and has offices in France, the USA, and Brazil. The company sells its products in more than 140 countries and estimates the number of Mandriva Linux users to be approximately 5 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."
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.
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.
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