Mandriva announces the opening of an official representative office in the Russian Federation and represents an “alternative to pirated Windows”.
The Russian representative office will complement the existing network of Mandriva development centers located in France and Brazil, and will contribute to the promotion of Mandriva solutions in the Russian and CIS markets. To date, the official website of the company Mandriva.Ru and an online store have been created.
In addition, Mandriva.Ru announces the start of sales of boxed versions of the Russian version of the operating system Mandriva 2007 Spring. According to the developers, it can not only compete successfully with Windows, but also surpass the MS product in many ways. Mandriva 2007 Spring offers three complete virtualization technologies (VMware, VirtualBox and QEMU), Metisse 3D desktop, as well as many well-known applications (Picasa, Google Earth, Skype, etc.).