Mandriva may be acquired

There is a third party reported to the French company behind the Linux distribution Mandriva to take over. Only on 23 January, however, clarity about the future of the company, bankrupt and in danger of going.

“We want to make known that a proposal is submitted by a third party to Mandriva to take over,” writes Jean-Manuel Croset, coo of the company. Shareholders of Mandriva get now is the time to express their views on this proposal. Mandriva has nothing officieels been told about a possible outcome, and wait until 23 January to discuss the future to decide.

The ceo of Mandriva brought to the shareholders at the end of december already aware of the impending bankruptcy. Would rather one of the shareholders 4 million in the company would have stitches, but the other shareholders would herfinancieringsplan have stopped. In 2010 and 2002 wrong Mandriva also already in financial difficulties. MandrakeSoft, as it was then still called, knew a collapse was narrowly avert.