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Deadline for participating in the second capital increase was yesterday July 5. Subscription letters sent before that date are still coming in. This operation was open to all shareholders and was for a maximum amount of 1.39M€. It will take a few days to get the exact numbers, and do the calculation for the “reducibleâ€? part, but we can say a few things at this stage:

1. the operation was successful in the sense that more that 75% of the amount was subscribed
2. more than 300 shareholders have subscribed
3. even though we do not know yet exactly how close we will get to the maximum, we should not be very far.

I wish to thank all those who participated in the operation.

[French]
La date limite pour participer à la deuxième augmentation de capital de Mandriva était le 5 juillet. Des demandes envoyées avant cette date continuent à nous parvenir. Cette opération était ouverte à tous les actionnaires et portait sur un montant maximum de 1,39M€. Il nous faudra quelques jours pour compiler les résultats et retraiter éventuellement la partie réductible, mais on peut déjà constater que :

1. l’opéation a réussi puisque le minimum requis de 75% a été souscrit,
2. plus de 300 actionnaires ont participé,
3. nous ne devrions pas être très loin des 100% souscrit.

Je tiens à remercier tous ceux qui ont participé.

In some great news for the Mandriva Corporate distros, the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has chosen Mandriva Corporate Server to replace Windows NT Server on all its server machines (around 400). The migration will take place within two years. The full write-up is in the press release.

We’ve just sent out a press release highlighting Mandriva’s leading contribution to NEPOMUK, which is being integrated into KDE 4. NEPOMUK is officially described as a ’semantic desktop technology’. What this means for KDE 4 is really a desktop-wide metadata layer: you can add metadata, like a description and a rating, to any object (objects can be files, of course, but also many other things), and the whole desktop is able to take advantage of it in whichever way is most appropriate for what you’re doing at the time. It’s a great technology and we’re happy to be playing a leading role in developing it. There’s more information in the press release. There’s also a video you can take a look at, which demonstrates NEPOMUK’s integration with Dolphin, the new file manager in KDE 4.