The other side says that the true reason for Mandriva being liquidated is due to Conectiva, their only cash positive subsidiary and OEM businiss had recently lost their primary OEM partnership deal with Positivo, dismissed in favour of some Android based platform...
Jean-Manuel Croset repeated some of the same key mistakes as the former long term CEO of Mandriva, Francois Bancilhon did, in stead of reinvesting and giving more focus to the areas where revenue are alreardy being generated (desktop/oem), rather than trying to bring greater focus to server distro side where it's always failed since day one...
He sacrificed the distribution project (and staff involved with) in favour of outsourcing to Mageia on server side, which really didn't manage to increase the interest nor add any extra appeal to their businiss offerings..
If the company truly had been cash flow positive and about to make it break even, then the investors would certainly pour in some last needed additional funds to finally make it a profitable company.
Without Conectiva turning profits, no parts of Mandriva is.
Having been personally involved with Jean-Manuel Croset related to Mandriva, acting as Mandriva Linux's last/final project leader back then, I can rest assure you that JMC is a very insincere and unprofessional guy, you really can't rely too much on telling the truth about anything.
Not having been involved with the company for the last year myself, I lack the insights on specific details otherwise, this is what I can tell you of from my personal knowledge, not very hard connecting the dots...
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The other side says that the true reason for Mandriva being liquidated is due to Conectiva, their only cash positive subsidiary and OEM businiss had recently lost their primary OEM partnership deal with Positivo, dismissed in favour of some Android based platform...
Jean-Manuel Croset repeated some of the same key mistakes as the former long term CEO of Mandriva, Francois Bancilhon did, in stead of reinvesting and giving more focus to the areas where revenue are alreardy being generated (desktop/oem), rather than trying to bring greater focus to server distro side where it's always failed since day one...
He sacrificed the distribution project (and staff involved with) in favour of outsourcing to Mageia on server side, which really didn't manage to increase the interest nor add any extra appeal to their businiss offerings..
If the company truly had been cash flow positive and about to make it break even, then the investors would certainly pour in some last needed additional funds to finally make it a profitable company.
Without Conectiva turning profits, no parts of Mandriva is.
Having been personally involved with Jean-Manuel Croset related to Mandriva, acting as Mandriva Linux's last/final project leader back then, I can rest assure you that JMC is a very insincere and unprofessional guy, you really can't rely too much on telling the truth about anything.
Not having been involved with the company for the last year myself, I lack the insights on specific details otherwise, this is what I can tell you of from my personal knowledge, not very hard connecting the dots...