AQIII

The Quebec Association of IT Freelancers (AQIII) is a private non-profit association made up of more than 1100 experienced independent IT contractors. The Association facilitates the availability of IT mandates for its membership, networking, the sharing of information between IT consultants and access to discounts with specific suppliers. The Association stimulates the creation of links between IT professionals who have similar representation goals and would like to have the power of a network and a visibility tool that meets their needs, taking into consideration their particular status as freelancers.

Jobboom Training

Jobboom Formation is the leader and reference tool available for candidates and professionals, in terms of training in Quebec.

Part of the Canoe network, Jobboom Formation provides its members and training centers an efficient and strategic solution.

Linux Professional Institute

LPI serves the community of Linux and open source software users vendors and developers, in the interest of increasing and supporting professional use of such software throughout world.

LPI will seek to improve the skills and resources of Linux and open source professionals, by providing services and setting standards which are relevant, of high quality and widely accessible.

Mandriva

Mandriva, originally known as Mandrakesoft, is the result of the merger of several open source pioneers such as Mandrakesoft in France, Conectiva in Brazil, Edge IT in France and Lycoris in the US.

The company offers its enterprise Linux and Open-Source product, technology and services to government organizations, educational institutions and individual users.

Novell

Novell Inc is a leader in IT solutions for secured identity management, the development of web applications and cross-platform network services. Novell combines these solutions with a service of professionals and strategy consultants.

Active in the Open Source community with its brands Ximian and SuSE Linux, Novell provides a complete range of Linux products and services for enterprises, from the desktop to the server.

Talend

Talend is the first provider of open source data integration software. After three years of intense research and development, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006. Talend's solutions are used primarily for migration and integration between operational systems, as well as for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest organizations, Talend makes enterprise-class data integration solutions affordable to organizations of all sizes.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be completely free software. You don't incur any costly licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

Ubuntu is the fastest growing Linux distribution.

Savoir-faire Linux provides an Ubuntu mirror in Canada : http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net.