Paris, 27th June2006 - Still pursuing its objective of offering an accessible, affordable and ever faster Linux distribution to everyone, Mandriva is putting the final touches on its brand new distro: Mandriva Linux 2007, available fall 2006.

OpenVZ Operating System Virtualization Offered Free with Distribution

PARIS and HERNDON, May 30, 2006 -Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, and the OpenVZ project today announced that the OpenVZ operating system virtualization software will be included as part of the Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0.

Mandriva launches Mandriva Kiosk, a Web-based one-click software installation service. This new online service provides access to the latest versions of the most popular applications through a simple installation process, so that anyone and everyone can benefit from a personally tailored system.

Enterprises and public sector organizations can benefit from the best of Linux thanks to the most internationalized open source publisher.

Paris, May 4th 2006 – Mandriva, the leading European Linux distributor, launches Pulse, the first open source (GPL) deployment software. Pulse is designed for any organization that wants to migrate their large and heterogeneous computing environment to Linux while taking full advantage of open source's flexibility.

Paris, April 6th - Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, with the support of the French Department of Commerce and Finance, today announced its participation in the ENERGy project with a subsidy of €287,000. This two-year ITEA (a European research and development program) project will contribute to the improvement of existing and emerging technologies to cope with the requirements of network management automation. The other partners in the project are Actimage (Luxembourg), Bull (France), ERCOM (France), Thales Communications (France), EADS Defence and Security Systems (France), EVIDIAN (France), DYCEC (Spain), Robotiker (Spain), ESI (Spain) and Telefonica I+D (Spain).

Many news have been circulating over the web concerning Gael Duval's departure from Mandriva. Users and community members are concerned by the lay off of a key founder and would like to understand what happened and what is the impact.

So let us start with the Gael situation: did you fire Gael?
Let us now turn to the company strategy: is Gael's departure a sign of a shift in strategy?
So help up clarify it: who are the target customers of Mandriva?
Is Mandriva going away from providing a free version of its products?

Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, presents a new way for individual users and Mandriva Club members to use Mandriva Linux. Today, Mandriva introduces Mandriva One, a combined live and install CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006. In a few weeks, Mandriva will open the first version of Mandriva Kiosk, a one-click Web-based software installation service, to Club members.

Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, and The Kompany, the creator of Mindawn, a Linux-friendly online music and video service, today announced their partnership to provide customers with built-in software to take advantage of legitimate digital content using Mandriva Linux 2006. Thanks to the collaboration between the two companies, Mandriva Linux 2006 users can access high quality music and video files at http://www.mindawn.com .

Paris, February 16th - Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, today announced that its EDGE-IT subsidiary has won a seat in the NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop project, funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme. The total project budget is €17 million, of which €1.8 million are reserved to EDGE-IT. Funding from the EU represents 50% of the budget. Major partners of the project includes DFKI, SAP, Thales, and IBM (full list available online, see project website below).

Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, today announced its support for IBM's move to allow the open source industry and community to freely access a new version of its industry leading enterprise dataserver, DB2. Mandriva considers IBM as one of the key builders of the momentum enjoyed by the open source development and distribution model. Mandriva will leverage the free version of DB2 -- Universal Database Express-C (DB2 Express-C) -- to allow enterprises to develop applications based on IBM's renowned dataserver technology.