Mandriva’s solutions are being used in 140 countries by more than 7 million users, and the company has played a leading role in deploying Linux based solutions in the public sector. The company’s flag ship solutions Corporate Server 3.0 and Pulse are the result of several years experience in the critical server applications field.  Corporate Server 3.0 is based on the latest Linux Kernel 2.6, features SMP and hyper-threading architectures as well as x86 and x86-64 architectures.  Mandriva’s Pulse deployment and management solution brings the control of a heterogeneous computer network back to the IT department. Especially important to under-funded public institutions, the deployment of Pulse considerably reduces the management costs of any IT environment by providing a central management console for OS and application deployment across different hardware platforms and operating systems.

Francois Bancilhon, Chief Executive Officer at Mandriva, comments: “Government agencies across Europe are relying on our solutions and already benefit from outstanding robustness, scalability, reliability, and ease of use. Through a closer partnership between LinuxIT and Mandriva, we are hoping to push the UK public sector a step further towards the adoption of Linux based solutions, and to bring it onto the same level as its continental counterparts.”