Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 now LSB 2.0 certified

___ For Immediate Release ___


Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 receives LSB 2.0 certification

Moreno Valley, Ca; Paris, France - February, 7th 2005 - Mandrakesoft
today announced that its newly released Mandrakelinux Corporate Server
3.0 server solution has received LSB 2.0 certification, following its
longstanding tradition of support for open standards.

The result of several years of experience in the critical server
application field, Corporate Server 3.0 provides outstanding
robustness, scalability, reliability and 5-year maintenance to
business customers, along with the ease of use for which Mandrakesoft
products are renowned.

Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 received LSB 2.0 certification
on January 26th 2005. This certification is a strong guarantee of
perfect compatibility with Linux applications.

This certification is in line with Mandrakesoft's earlier announcement
about its participation in the Linux Core Consortium (LCC): going 
forward, the Corporate Server line of products will be based on the
LSB-compliant LCC operating system architecture.

"We're delighted to have the Corporate Server 3.0 LSB-compliant. This
is a significant achievement for our corporate products strategy, and
will add weight to our efforts to continue growing our large base of
ISVs", declared François Bancilhon, Mandrakesoft CEO.

The Linux Standard Base is a set of standards developed and promoted to
increase compatibility among Linux distributions and to enable software
applications to run on any compliant system.

"We congratulate Mandrakesoft on their certification to the LSB
Runtime Environment Version 2.0," said Andrew Josey, Director of
Certification at The Open Group. "LSB certification is a critical
foundation for the long-term market success of Linux. Together with
the LSB specification, it provides the necessary standardization of a
binary platform for volume Linux applications."

The Open Group developed and now operates the LSB Certification program
on behalf of the Free Standards Group.

Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 LSB certification details:
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/display_product.tpl?CAL...


More information about Mandrakelinux Corporate Server 3.0 is available at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/business/corporate-server/

About Mandrakesoft

Mandrakesoft is the publisher of the popular Mandrakelinux operating
system, one of the most full-featured and easy-to-use Linux systems
available. The company offers its enterprise, government and
educational customers a complete range of GNU/Linux and Open Source
software and related services. Mandrakesoft products are available in
more than 120 countries through dedicated channels and also from
Mandrakestore.com, the company's online store. Number 1 in several
countries, Mandrakesoft has won many awards for quality and technical
innovation. "Born on the Internet" in late 1998, Mandrakesoft has
offices in the United States and France. Mandrakesoft is traded on
Paris Euronext March Libre (ISIN Code: FR0004159382/MLMAN; Reuters
code: MAKE.PA) and the US OTC market (stock symbol MDKFF).

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About the LSB

An initiative of the Free Standards Group, the Linux Standard Base
(LSB) is a set of standards designed to increase compatibility amongst
Linux distributions and enable applications to run on any LSB-compliant
system. The advent of LSB 2.0 is revolutionary in that it allows ISVs
to create "shrink-wrapped software" for the Linux platform in much the
same way they already do for Windows.