it’s 2009 and mandriva is still my distro of choice.
some products released by mandriva that don’t seem to get a lot of press:

mandriva directory server (ldap) – http://mds.mandriva.org
(redhat released the 389 directory server sometime ago as well)
pulse 2 (system management) – http://pulse2.mandriva.org
(manages windows workstations as well)

i haven’t tried either of these products yet, but may sometime in the future out of curiosity.