Jean Croset Manual, Mandriva “A sense of waste” – ZDNet France

Background. Mandriva is in trouble: the official site is currently offline and
 Societe.com indicates that the company is in liquidation
 legal since 20 May 2015.

And the information is surprising: in June,
  the publisher claimed to be ready to open a new act and provided in
 he finished with his past disappointments. The company had made the choice
 refocus on B2B markets and then turned to
 International and emerging markets in search of growth. What happened, Jean-Manuel Croset, former CEO of publisher answers questions from ZDNet.fr.

ZDNet.fr: In June 2014, you are considering a return to balance in 2015, today you proclaim the liquidation of the company, what that it happened?
 

Jean Croset Manual : It’s pretty simple. When I arrived at the head of the company, we had to restructure and lay off employees. This led to an industrial tribunal proceedings which led to a conviction Mandriva. Former employees have obtained a provisional execution of the sentence, which allows to force the execution of a judgment before we could exhaust all remedies available.

We did not have the means to raise the money and the court did not want to compromise on the terms of payment, which led to a liquidation of the company, declared on May 20 . In addition, our shareholders grew tired and did not want to give us the necessary financial support to deal with this sentence: If we still had needed capital to reinvest they could understand, but for prud ‘ Men, no.
 

What action will be given to solutions announced last year such as Mandriva Pulse?
 

In a sense, our luck is that our solutions are open source. So we hope that people will continue the work already done by Mandriva and resume later on these products. I know that some of our partners have initiated the discussion with us to regain some of our employees, but for now we do not really more information.
 

What is your feeling towards this end a bit steep?
 

It was a sense of waste, it was hopeful looking up. On the year 2014, there had been a 40% increase in sales and a significant reduction in costs compared to 2013. We had almost reached the target announced last June, a return to financial balance for 2015. It was not a problem related to the operational, but here it is: having dismissed a portion of our workforce in 2012 that today 15 people are left in the lurch. So we are quite disappointed, but we prefer to turn the page.