Stories about: Conectiva

Mandriva, now the third-largest Linux distributor behind Red Hat and Novell, is pushing to move from its consumer and small-business market niches into the realm of enterprise IT.

Several Linux vendors have confirmed they are participating in a project to turn Debian into a serious force in the enterprise.

French Linux distributor Mandrakesoft has changed its name to Mandriva.

France's Mandrakesoft plans to acquire Brazil's largest Linux vendor, Conectiva, both companies said in a joint statement yesterday. The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Mandrakesoft will purchase the company in exchange for US$2.36 million in stock.

Red Hat and IBM will jointly help software vendors certify their applications for Linux in a partnership announced Thursday.

Four small Linux vendors this week said they're joining together to create a common code base in an effort to attract more independent software vendors and hardware makers to support their versions of the open-source operating system.

Four major Linux players are to unite their distributions around a common core based on the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, in an effort to push Linux standardization to a new level. MandrakeSoft of France, Conectiva of Brazil, TurboLinux of Japan and Progeny Linux Systems of the US say the venture, called the Linux Core Consortium (LCC), has broad industry support from companies such as Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard.