Partners
The founding initiative for the Open World Forum is supported by a heavyweight group of communities and IT players, including two worldwide consortiums (OW2 and QualiPSo), several European and French associations (Adullact, AFUL, April, Silicon Sentier), major French competitiveness clusters (Cap Digital and System@tic) and numerous corporations. These organizations together represent hundreds of communities, large enterprises, SMEs, academics, public sector bodies, and thousands of individual members based across three continents.
Gold Sponsors
Bull, as Architect of an Open World™, is a pathfinder. With the convergence of IT, telecommunications and media, Bull – the only European-based company that masters all the key elements of the IT value chain – helps enterprises and public sector bodies to build, optimize, run and ensure return on investment in their business-critical Information Systems (IS), so they can operate in total security. Modernizing IS by applying open and secure solutions – that is our obsession. Architectures based on open technologies – that is where our know-how lies. It is our heritage, part of our culture. Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Our distribution network and business partners cover more than 50 countries worldwide. official website
QualiPSo is a unique international alliance of ICT industry players, SMEs, administrations and academics whose role it is to help industry and government agencies drive innovation and competitiveness in the field of Open Source software. Founded at the end of 2006, the consortium sets out to define and implement the technologies, processes and policies needed to facilitate development and use of Open Source software components with the same level of trust traditionally enjoyed by proprietary software. QualiPSo is the largest ever Open Source initiative funded by the European Commission, as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) initiative. official website
Founded in January 2007, OW2 is an independent industrial community dedicated to developing open source code middleware, and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including Acceleo, ASM, Bonita, eXo Platorm, Funambol , JOnAS, Lomboz, Orbeon Forms, SpagoBI and Xwiki. official website
Silver Sponsors
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. official site
Alter Way brings Open Source solutions to main IT needs : content management, business intelligence and applications, messaging, network and system infrastructure. The group puts forward its industrial capabilities and expertise, thanks to the alliance of noted teams, under the Alter Way brand.
Lead by its founders, Philippe Montargès and Véronique Torner, the Alter Way group comes along with in-depth answers under the same roof to institutions and corporations, local communities and SME challenges : consulting, training, integration, management and hosting.
Its distinctive competences manifest into a long-lasting partnership, matching those of traditional players. official website
Cap Gemini is headquartered in Paris, France and operates in more than 36 countries. We are, above all, a people company—over 86,000 people in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. Management and support roles aside, our employees are grouped into four major disciplines, each of which is governed by its specific economic rules, and managed with its own profit.
Four fundamental objectives guide the operation of our business:
* To use our expertise to the benefit of our clients and partners through an open, collaborative approach.
* To ensure sustainable and profitable long-term growth.
* To provide a return on investment to shareholders.
* To promote employee development. official website
From its beginnings in 1985, Qualcomm has grown from seven individuals meeting in a den to a world-leading provider of wireless technology and services. Qualcomm is a global company, a firm with many facets, with each business division changing the way we live and work through its own unique contributions. But no matter what each Qualcomm business does, all are united by a single, driving passion: to continue to deliver the world’s most innovative wireless solutions. official site
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.
Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Our core brands include the Java technology platform, Solaris operating system, the MySQL database management system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor. official website
Bronze Sponsors
The A.F.D.E.L. (French association for software editors) was created in October 2005 in order to answer the of representation for software editors in France. official site
Founded in 2002, Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities and version proliferation. official site
Headquartered in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dexon Computer, Inc was founded in 1992, and has been an industry leader in providing end-user and reseller network solutions. At Dexon we supply New and pre-owned network and voice equipment, as well as cabling. We are a total 'One Stop Shop' for all of your network needs. We specialize and deliver worldwide a complete range of Cisco, Nortel, 3Com and other IT Hardware. official site
Among French editors, Groupe Eyrolles is one of the last middle-sized independant groups. For a long time, it has been on a privileged position on the market of professional books, through its Eyrolles and Editions d'Organisation brands. These are especially known for their collections about business management, computing and construction. Eyrolles group also owns a library specialized in business management, computing, construction and sciences.
Guide Share is an independant association of IBM users. official site
Nexedi, l'éditeur du Progiciel de gestion Intégré en licence libre ERP5, a déployé la solution ERP5 dans de nombreux secteurs d'activités : banque, habillement, aérospatial, santé, gouvernement, etc. ERP5 est aujourd'hui utilisé par des organisations de toutes tailles en Afrique, Asie, Europe, Amérique du Nord et Amérique du Sud. La licence libre d'ERP5 permet de s'affranchir de tous les coûts de licence dans le cadre du déploiement d'un ERP et offre à l'organisation utilisatrice d'ERP5 une indépendance réelle doublée d'une liberté totale quant à l'évolution de son système d'information. official site
Nuxeo is the leading open source ECM vendor. Our standards-based platform is used to provide solutions to your complex document and content management problems. We can help you improve your business efficiency, save costs and reduce risks. Our open source approach enables our customers and partners to get a better solution at a lower cost. official site
Parat offers a complete range of Mobile Solutions, such as mobile workstations for your travelling collaborators, multimedia briefcases, measure cases, but also a personalized conception of your mobile equipments in order to adapt them to your specific professional needs. official site
Phoenix Technologies builds world-class core systems software platforms, tools and applications that take full advantage of our history of expertise at the core of digital devices, to enable the broadest set of users a more simple, trusted and reliable experience. official site
What began as a better way to build software--openness, transparency, collaboration--soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution of choice continues. Today Red Hat is the world´s most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology. official site
SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. Sugar easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-site and appliance-based solutions to suit customers' security, integration and configuration needs. official site
Eversince its creation in 2003, StarXpert chose to focus its expertise on free softwares, in order to become the world leader of OpenSource desktop. StarXpert is also a French leader in migration to OpenOffice, with an unequaled experience of over 100 projects. official site
Data integration is the process of moving and combining data across the information system. It typically consists of extracting data from different sources (databases, files, applications, Web Services, emails, etc.), applying transformations (join, lookup, deduplication, calculation, etc.) to this data and sending the resulting data to target systems. Talend, the first provider of open source data integration software, leverages the open source model to make data integration available to all types of organizations, regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints. official site
Wallix is part of the IF Research Group, created by Jean-Noël de Galzain in 1999 to provide technical and engineering assistance services to companies and government departments for the Linux environment, infrastructures and computer security.
For more than 5 years the company has been developing its expertise in the industrialisation of solutions based on Open Source software and Open Source development. official site
In Europe, thousands of companies in various markets like construction, logistics, professional services and estate agents already changed to the Zarafa solution. But also goverments like Belgium city counsil Leuven has recently started using the software. Because these companies needed a user-friendly solution from a solid company, they chose for Zarafa. official website
Organisation Partners
Paris Chamber of Commerce (C.C.I.P.). official site
The French association ADULLACT (Association des Développeurs et Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres pour les Administrations et les Collectivités Territoriales) was created in 2002 in France to «design, develop and promote a common heritage of open business applications». It is the first venture of this kind (according to Gartner, who quoted Adullact in July 2005). The association encourages the development – as opposed to just the utilisation – of open software, but also its mutualization through public funding, and in particular, within local authorites themselves. official website
The principal mission of the French association AFUL (Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres) is to promote - directly or indirectly - open applications, and notably free operating systems like GNU-Linux, as well as the adoption of open standards. AFUL is a non-profit-making type of association regrouping users, open software professionals, sales and marketing enterprises as well as other associations, installed in a dozen or so countries, or French-speaking regions (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, French-speaking Africa). AFUL was founded in 1998. official website
Founded in 1996 April (Association de promotion et défense du logiciel libre) is the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software. Made up of more than 2 400 members (individuals, companies, associations and local governments), is a major player in the field of Free Software. Its aim: making Free Software more accessible for the general public, professionals and institutions, and thus more widespread in the French-speaking area. It also acts as a watchdog on digital freedoms, warning the public about the dangers of private interests keeping an exclusive stranglehold on information and knowledge. official website
Cap Digital is the French cluster of digital content and information technologies. Cap Digital has more than 300 members from both the private and public sectors - large enterprises and 80% of small-to-medium sized businesses on the one hand, and universities, research laboratories, public establishments on the other. The cluster spans 6 different domains: knowledge engineering, digital heritage, image, sound and interactivity, video games, e-education and e-learning, digital lifestyle and services. Cap Digital has formed a working group on collaborative technologies and intelligence called «Technologies et Intelligences Collaboratives». official website
The Open Source Observatory and Repository (www.OSOR.eu) is an initiative of the IDABC Unit (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/), managed by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics. The OSOR.eu platform - including the OSOR.eu Forge - supports and encourages the re-use of publicly-financed Open Source Software developments, focusing on those of use to European public administrations. OSOR.eu aims to support the collaborative development of Open Source Software (OSS) applications and solutions, particularly cross-border collaborations and exchanges of knowledge and software. Project owners are invited to open projects on the OSOR.eu platform and to license their content or source code under a recognised Open Source license, thus giving a larger public the possibility to test and use their solutions, provide feedback, and contribute to improving the software's quality. OSOR.eu also promotes and links to the work of national repositories, encouraging the emergence of a pan-European federation of Open Source Software repositories. official website
Silicon Sentier is a French association linking one hundred technology enterprises (Web, Open source and Mobility) in Paris and the Ile-de-France region. It provides a platform of visibility and exchange for France’s newest innovative enterprises encouraging experimentation and ‘cross-fertilization’ of projects. Through its actions and its vision, Silicon Sentier seeks to encourage innovation, growth and employment. official website
The goal of the SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION cluster is to give the Ile-de-France visibility at global level for its work in designing, building and administering complex systems. Of the 340 players involved, 80 are large enterprises, and 80% of the affiliated small-to-medium companies and industries are directly involved in the cluster’s projects. Subscribers also include 140 research laboratories, and 15 regional authorities. The cluster has set up its own internal think-tank dedicated to the theme of openness, with the aim of coordinating Open Software players and their projects in the Ile-de-France. This so-called ‘Groupe Thématique Ouverture’ works on R&D subjects that are specific to Open Software, contributes to the structuring and development of open applications, and plays a supportive role in administering the rising tide of innovation currently taking place in the open software arena. official website
Press Partners
01net official site
Advanced Web is the first French monthly magazine aimed at Web professionals, would they be Webdesigners, Webmasters, Flashers, Programmers, Project Managers,... official website
Applica official website
CIO-Online.com official website
CIO-Online.com official website
hakin9 official website
L'Informaticien official website
it-news-info.com official website
Linux+DVD official website
Linux Magazine is part of a worldwide family of magazines offering an Open Source perspective on the world of IT services. With eight monthly magazines in six languages, Linux New Media is the largest Linux magazine publisher in the world. This global reach accompanies every issue of Linux Magazine. The top Linux experts around the world are the readers -- and often the writers. This innovative publishing network lets Linux Magazine focus on the needs of the Linux audience worldwide. official website
Le Monde Informatique. official website
PHP Solutions official website
ZDnet.fr. official website
Partner Communities
ANDSI is a CIO community, totally independent of suppliers and organizations, proposing several meetings per year in a convivial atmosphere where the members can share information, thoughts and exchange without any political cant. official website
The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. official website
Framasoft is a flexible collaborative website about free software and its state of mind. It aims at allowing a very large audience to know about free softwares. official website
Plone development community, powerful and user-friendly software for content management. official website
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Items is an international consulting firm based in Paris, dedicated to delivering Information & Communication Technology (ICT) strategies
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In partnership with Qualipso Consortium. official website
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Items is an international consulting firm based in Paris, dedicated to delivering Information & Communication Technology (ICT) strategies official website
Mandriva is one of the few worldwide Linux providers. The company serves both the corporate market (enterprises, government organizations and educational institutions) and the consumer market.
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