Free & Open Source in Europe

Perrick Penet, No Parking

PHP Conference, Vancouver, 2007

Where are we in software ?

Microsoft : 25 235M Euros
IBM : 12 635M Euros
Oracle : 7 410M Euros
SAP : 5 958M Euros
Symantec : 3 300M Euros
EMC : 3 185M Euros
Computer Associates : 2 815M Euros
HP : 1 975M Euros

french in top 20 ? Dassault Systems (defense) and Business Objects

Where are we in services (in France) ?

IBM : 2 042M Euros
Capgemini : 1 667M Euros
Atos Origin : 1 526M Euros
Unilog / LogicaCMG : 794M Euros
Accenture : 770M Euros
Altran : 669M Euros
HP services : 637M Euros
Sopra Group : 573M Euros
France Telecom : 505M Euros
Steria : 483M Euros

Where is he from ?

Linus Torvalds == Linux

Guido van Rossum == Python

Rasmus Lerdorf == PHP

Michael 'Monty' Widenius == MySQL

Linux developers per capita

Linux developers per capita, in Europe

Gnome developers per capita

Gnome developers per capita, in Europe

FLOSS developers (in Sourceforge)

FLOSS leaders (in Debian)

FLOSS migrants

Claroline

online education with philosophy, fork, betrayals and grants in between

32 languages

claroline.net

SPIP / SPIP-Agora

liberté, égalité, forké

40 languages

spip.net

Open Source at the Belgian Ministry of Finances

In order to minimize the dependance to services business and software companies, and still guarantee the long term support of all applications, the availality of the source code is essential [...] Moreover federal agencies will try to avoid any dependance upon proprietary platforms.

PHP5 at the Belgian Ministry of Finances

The DGME - French government

Goals :

Simplify the relation between the people and the public sector
Improve its efficiency
Promote civil servants' mission

Reference frame (close to a law) on interoperability, security and accessibility

Software philosophy at the DGME

Main criterias : internal resources, budget, available time.

Bonus with Open Source : local (cheaper and easier to maintain).

Open Source tools at the DGME

"source forge" (Admisource)
collaborative / community tool (Ateliers)
e-learning plateform (Cybeo)

Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector

While the U.S. has the edge in terms of large FLOSS-related businesses, the greater individual contribution from Europe has led to an increasing number of globally successful European FLOSS small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Economic impact of FLOSS [...]

Given Europe's historically lower ability to create new software businesses compared to the US, due to restricted venture capital and risk tolerance, the high share of European FLOSS developers provides a unique opportunity to create new software businesses and reach towards the Lisbon goals of making Europe the most competitive knowledge economy by 2010.

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Business models

double license / full Open Source / training / services / hosting / on-demand

Start-ups and the rest of the converstation

Vecosys UK - a conversation about European startups

Techcrunch FR - explorons le Web2.0

Legal stuff & licenses

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