tux99 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Mandriva is up for sale, according to French Mandriva web site www.mandrivalinux-online.org. There appear to be two interested buyers: LightApp and Linagora. I wish HP or IBM would buy Mandriva and make it their in-house Linux distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 According to French Mandriva web site... If you can't read the French version... here's a google English translation of that link. Google translation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 As we know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Wow, that's quite sad news, and for me at least quite surprising. They actually talk about "the end of the month" too, which is before the scheduled shipping date of 2010 Spring... I wonder what will happen next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 (edited) Now what? :unsure: The crises have been for many years (more or less), so this seems avoidable in the end. Edited May 10, 2010 by Artificial Intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 sad !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Cough! cough! https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/87613-public-statement-of-mandrivauser-de/page__view__findpost__p__622893 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted May 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 sad !!! Why so negative? A new ownership means new breath of live, new opportunities, maybe finally better marketing, so it can only be positive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Why so negative? A new ownership means new breath of live, new opportunities, maybe finally better marketing, so it can only be positive! If they can find a buyer and if the buyer don't kill Mandriva. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 If they can find a buyer and if the buyer don't kill Mandriva. Well, I don't see it really possible in this "business" that someone would buy MDV for the soul reason of killing the brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) Sad, but... expected. IMO it's very difficult to sell the business under the current conditions. They will likely fold and file something compliant to the French bankruptcy law. Edited May 11, 2010 by scarecrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Well, I don't see it really possible in this "business" that someone would buy MDV for the soul reason of killing the brand. Who suggested that it would be the sole reason? I really don't think anyone will be looking to buy the company in order to kill off the brand, anyone in the business with that kind of money to waste (i.e. RH, Novell, Canonical) need not worry about the strength of Mandriva's brand as it isn't that strong relative to theirs. Anyone looking to buy the company will be more interested in stripping out the technical staff (at least what's left of them) and their skills and absorb them into their own products. They are not likely to keep the existing business going as is as it has been proven that the current business model is seriously flawed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) The Xandros & Linspire is a good exampel of this. Xandros bought and stripped Linspire back in 2008. If Mandriva is going to keep on under new owner A LOT of things needs changes. Mandriva as it is now have several failures from poor management to total lack of PR department and communication. Edited May 11, 2010 by Artificial Intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted May 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 (edited) So much gloomy random speculation, did anyone actually read the article? There are two interested buyers, both of them are open source related companies and both don't have their own distro. Linspire had nowhere near the customer/user base that Mandriva has so the Xandros<>Linspire deal is not comparable at all. While I agree that the free consumer Mandriva distro is not a viable business in itself, the Mandriva enterprise distro and the related products (Pulse2) and the existing enterprise customers could be an ideal complement, especially for Linagora. Here is a better article that clarifies the situation more: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/107324/confirmed-mandriva-acquisition-talks Edited May 11, 2010 by tux99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 let me expand on my previous comment. The article suggested Mandriva may shut down after a couple of months if they cannot secure a purchaser. that's sad New owners may be excellent. They maybe just what Mandriva needs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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