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Caixa Mgica Software:
A brief overview of a research approach
Paulo Trezentos:[email protected]
http://twitter.com/PauloTrezentosPartner / Technical DirectorJohn
Thomson:[email protected]
Friday, 29th January 2010
A brief summary
Caixa Mgica Software is a software and solutions provider for
GNU/Linux based Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Systems.
Linux Caixa Mgica is the main Linux Distribution available in
Portugal and in 2000 one of the co-founders was awarded the Prmio
Milnio 2000 Expresso award for the project.
Originally based in the research centre of ISCTE,
ADETTI it soon outgrew the available resources
and has relocated twice to larger offices.
Caixa Mgica in Numbers
Reach the break even in 2007
Finished 2009 with Revenue over 5 M euros
Employers: > 30
Our vision:
We wish to be a leader in the Open Source industry and we want
to realise them through various aspects:Software: Linux Caixa Mgica
'The' Portuguese distribution
Appliances: CAMES powered by Ipbrick
Consulting: Projects and involvement in F/OSS and areas relating
to technology.
R & D: Innovation at all levels and through all aspects.
Business: Helping customers realise the benefits that F/OSS
allow for.
Professional Services: Integration and assisting clients.
Unified Team-work:A strong team with unique competencies.
Who, where and what?
Software55.000 e-escolas notebooks
111.000 PCs at portuguese schools (dual-boot)
450.000 Magalhaes netbook (dual-boot)
30.000 active download installations
AppliancesCAMES: a partnership with Ipbrick
Cames rollout: 110 portuguese army units, SMEs,...
Professional ServicesInst. Meteorologia, SMAS,...
ConsultancyPT, CGD, Min. Justia,...
Main product Linux Caixa Mgica 14
New version with new features:Speed boot, KDE 4.2 , better
support of 3G
Continuation of the partnership with Mandriva as a base.
Choice of Gnome 2.26 /KDE 4.2.
Many packages and applications have
had partial if not full translations to
Portuguese.
RPM based system that uses a port
of APT, APT-RPM.
Live CD (Pen)
Advanced teaching and learning
In 2009/2010:First Masters course in Open Source Software
Course recognised by Ministrio da Cincia e Ensino Superior
In partnership with UOC Universidade Aberta da Catalunha
http://moss.dcti.iscte.pt
Partnership with Univ. vora
In 2010/2020European Masters courses in OSS
European based research projects
Caixa Mgica works in many multi-national European based research
projects. After the conclusion of the EDOS (EU FP6 STREP) based
project it is now actively working on another, MANCOOSI.
Many other projects in the pipeline and that have been bidded
for.
Work with a multitude of top-tier Universities and research
institutions.
International research
MANCOOSI project of 7 FP
Managing software complexity (e.g. Software packages)
Main points:2008-2011
4.4 M Euros (CM: 594 K euros)
10 partners from 6 countries
Portugal: CM & INESC
Principle objectives for R&D for CM:Development of a new
generation of meta-installers
Involvement in two proposals for FP7 - bidded October 2009
DUDF error reporting
On the context of the MANCOOSI European project we developed
dudf.caixamagica.pt, a reporting platform about installation
problems that users have with our package installer, apt-rpm.
It has been collecting reports and generating statistics about
problems and corresponding packages since September 2009.
It serves both as a source of information for Caixa Magica QA
and as input for the MANCOOSI solver competition.
Out position regarding Intellectual Property
Brand: we protect our brand in normal ways
Patents: we are against, signed OIN, but when in a project we
respect consortium decision
Copyright: default license is GPL V2 but is some exceptional
cases other license may be used (Minisat+ -> BSD,...)
BrandPatentsCopyright
Research and contribution to the revenue
Research => Better OSS product + Better Business
processes
Business Processes = IT Platforms + Skills + Processes
We share OSS product but not internal business
processes
Revenue is generated through services, consultancy and support,
leveraged by having better Internal Business Processes than our
competitors
Thank you.
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