Paris the 5th of December 2013: SMILE and Mandriva S.A. have agreed to form a partnership aimed growing the use of Mandriva Pulse2 on the professional market. Mandriva Pulse2 is the market leader in Open Source IT systems management. The solution embeds well known technologies such as GLPI, OCS, FusionInventory and BackupPC and is  gearing towards a major release at the beginning of next year. It has already proven itself as a credible solution for mission-critical systems.

This partnership will allow SMILE, one of the fastest growing IT systems integrator to deliver Pulse2 to new customers and provide them with SMILE's added value, while expanding Pulse's market size at the European level.

"We look forward to this partnership as it will accelerate the adoption growth of Pulse2" says Jean-Manuel Croset, CEO of Mandriva S.A. "We are confident SMILE will deliver great results thanks to their expertise and their knowledge of the market".

More information about Pulse2, Mandriva and SMILE may be found on the two companies' websites.

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