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Assurance Support Open Source - La garantie d'imputabilité
Savoir-faire Linux présentera l' Assurance Support Open Source - La garantie d'imputabilité lors de la vitrine technologique du 27 mai 2010 à Québec.
Dans un contexte gouvernemental qui nécessite une grande réactivité et des niveaux d'engagement de service élevés, l'intégration dans les systèmes d'information de composantes Open Source progresse mais se heurte à une problématique réelle d'imputabilité.
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Savoir-faire... Release of SFLphone 0.9.7
The SFLphone project has reached an important milestone this week with the release of version 0.9.7. In addition to bugfixes, this version introduces new features expected by VoIP professionals: conferences, high-definition codecs and support for the main communication encryption protocols (TLS, SRTP/ZRTP). Published under the GPLv3, the SFLphone project, developed by the Canadian company Savoir-faire Linux, confirms its leadership role in setting the standard for the open source VoIP... Free Seminar : SpagoBI, The Open Source Business Intelligence Solution, on November 6th in Montreal
Eng and Savoir-faire Linux have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on the Open Source Business Intelligence solution, SpagoBI on Friday, November 6th in Montreal from 9am to 12pm. At the end of 2008, a Gartner study has identified SpagoBI as the most promising technologies in terms of business intelligence. The release of SpagoBI 2.2 in 2009 concurred with this analysis and confirmed the leading position of SpagoBI in the world of Open Source Business Intelligence solutions for large... Free Seminar : Open Source Public Key Infrastructure, on November 4th in Montreal
PrimeKey Solutions and Savoir-faire Linux have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on the Open Source EJBCA public key infrastructure on Wednesday, November 4 in Montreal from 9am to 12pm. Following the Société Générale, the GIE Cartes Bancaires, the Swedish Police Board (30,000 users), Daimler AG, Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Bankgirocentralen BGC AB, LM Ericsson AB, the EJBCA public key infrastructure has been chosen by France's Délégation Générale de l'Armement (French Ministry... Yet another IT project demanding a bigger budget !
You let out a sigh and remember with a certain nostalgia your company's first information system. With a reasonable investment, you computerized some of your business processes, and gained in productivity. But your company has now evolved, and although a good portion of the system still meets your needs, you wish to modify or replace some part of it. Nothing major. You are not an IT specialist, but you think that in 2009, it should not cost a lot to connect your e-commerce website with your... Smart decision-making with BI tools
By gathering an arsenal of powerful Free Software Savoir-faire Linux enables smart decision making with heterogeneous and often unorganized data. A health system specialist and former Quebec governement minister, Michel Clair, once commented: « We have much data, but little information... » By this, he meant that it is useless having large amounts of data if it's unorganized and thus unable to inform important decisions, allowing, for example, reduced production costs or... Obama and Free Software
There are reliable signs showing that the Obama administration is interested in Free Software. A few weeks ago, one of Sun's founders, Scott McNealy told BBC News that the Obama administration had asked him to prepare a study based on the use of Free Software as far as the american administration' economy and the security are concerned... During the interview at the BBC he reported that « It's intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary... The federal government wants to be informed on Free Software
On January 19th, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGS) sent a request for information regarding Free Software ». this request aimed at « helping the Government of Canada to establish guidelines for the planification, the acquisition, the use and the transfer to Free Software. Whereas the Governement shows no real interest to Free Software, there are still some questions that need precisions (see below). From an operational point of view, it is necessary to... At the service of Canadian Royalties
The construction of a mining center in an isolated part of northern Quebec demonstrates that the use of open protocols – and free software – can prevent skyrocketing IT costs!
A few months ago, Canadian Royalties, a Quebec-based enterprise, began construction of a multi-site mining center 150 kilometres away from Salluit, an isolated village located at the northern tip of the province of Quebec. The challenge is that the building site, known as the Nunavik Nickel Project, is... The beneficial effects of Free Software in public administrations
A spanish study based on 16 implementations of Free Software in public administrations shows that the use of Free Software results in numerous advantages: decreased costs, increased independence from suppliers, and the possibility of creating a community around a project, among others. Additionally, Free Software can become a "collaboration model" between public administrations at different levels (local, regional, national and international). To read the study | ||
