Mandrakesoft
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| Société Anonyme | |
| Industry | Software industry |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | 1998 (MandrakeSoft) 1995 (Conectiva) |
| Defunct | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Products | Mandriva Linux |
| Website | www.mandriva.com/en/ at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2015) |
Mandriva S.A. was a public software company specializing in Linux and open-source software. Its corporate headquarters was in Paris, and it had development centers in Metz, France and Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A. was the developer and maintainer of a Linux distribution called Mandriva Linux, as well as various enterprise software products. Mandriva is a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.
Mandriva, S.A. began as MandrakeSoft in 1998.
In February 2004, following lengthy litigation with the Hearst Corporation over the name "Mandrake" (the Hearst Corporation owned a comic strip called Mandrake the Magician), MandrakeSoft was required to change its name. Following the acquisition of the Brazilian Linux distribution Conectiva in February 2005, the company's name was changed on 7 April 2005 to "Mandriva" to reflect the names "MandrakeSoft" and "Conectiva."
On October 4, 2004, MandrakeSoft acquired the professional support company Edge IT, which focused on the corporate market in France and had 6 employees.
On June 15, 2005, Mandriva acquired Lycoris (formerly, Redmond Linux Corporation).
On October 5, 2006, Mandriva signed an agreement to acquire Linbox, a Linux enterprise software infrastructure company. The agreement included the acquisition of all shares of Linbox for a total of $1.739 million in Mandriva stock, plus an earn out of up to $401,000 based on the 2006 Linbox financials.
In 2007, Mandriva reached a deal with the Government of Nigeria to put their operating system on 17,000 school computers.
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