Huibert Kwakernaak pointed out two typos in our paper V. Kucera, D. Henrion "H2 optimization as a pole placement" : . Page 4, bottom of second column, Example 1, \beta = 1 must be replaced with \beta = 1/1.2 = 0.833333. . Bottom of page 5, Example 2, the entry (2,6) of system matrix should be 2.29521 (and not 2.29421). Didier Henrion, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France.