“Gael Duval is a founder of MandrakeSoft, the producers of the
fast-rising Linux-Mandrake distribution. Gael was kind enough to
take some time to answer LWN’s questions about where Linux-Mandrake
is going.”
“Axa is a big investor – they have deep pockets (650 billions
USD of asset management), they have many different funds and
companies in the group and are very very reactive. It’s been the
fastest investor to be interested and agree to invest in a Linux
company. They made their decision before Redhat’s successful IPO
and are now very happy of their decision.”
“The money will be used to launch and support more and more
innovative open source projects and to establish MandrakeSoft
offices in several countries.”