It smells scorched for Mandriva. The Linux distribution editor yet assured last June to redress the balance and hoped to revive the balance in 2015. But it seems that the company is now in trouble: the official site is currently offline and Societe.com indicates that the company is under liquidation since 20 May 2015. The company did not respond to our requests and content hosted on mandriva.com are inaccessible from the beginning of May.
And the information is surprising: in June, the publisher claimed to be ready to open a new act and assured to be done with his past disappointments. The company had made the choice to focus on the B2B market and then turned to the international and emerging markets in search of growth. But the company had remained discreet on figures, merely a mention sales growth and a reduction of its losses.
However, Mandriva did not disarm and boasted its offer Mandriva Pulse, an IT asset management solution that the company had managed to place among the German publisher Univention. In 2013, the company had 17 employees for a turnover of 553,000 euros and 488,500 euros in losses.
The company had gradually shifted its distribution to turn to its software packages to the world of business, but several separate forks of the project have emerged over the years. It was thus seen develop Mageia or OpenMandriva which repeated the result of the work initiated by the company on its consumer distribution.
On his blog, Gaël Duval, one of the founders of the project, seems to confirm the end of the company’s activity but recalls that the Linux distribution initially carried by the company is still alive and developed through its various forks.
The Mandriva company, founded in 2001, was in its early years tried to impose its Linux distribution to the consumer market. But the company had to face competition from Windows and legal worries following the use of the name Mandrake for early versions of the OS, which had infuriated the US publisher of the American comic of the same name . In 2010, the company had already curled liquidation.
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