The F/OSS Working Group in the
System@tic-Paris-Region
competitiveness cluster
Roberto Di Cosmo
Chairman
Roma, October 28th 2008
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Context
Open Source is soaring
“ in 2011, 80% of commercial software will
contain Open Source components”...
“ 49,7% of critical software comes from Open
Source ”...
Mark Driver (Gartner) sept.07
« in 2012, more than 90% of business
will use Open Source software »
The State of Open Source, Gartner, 2008
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Context
Europe's partial leadership
GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION
FLOSS-RELATED AND IT SERVICES
OF LEADERSHIP IN 3%
REVENUE, EUROPE AND WORLD
© 2006 MERIT
DEVELOPMENT EU10 + Associated
© 2006 MERIT States
22%
45% Other
EU15
30%
USA + Canada
Europe's IT paradox. . .
• outsourcing to the east :
generic, simple programming tasks moving to emerging markets
• business revenues to the west :
IT revenues going to the US, even EU-generated ones (Jboss, MySQL ...)
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Evolution of French market (PAC)
Year M€ % Growth
Employment :
2003 100 0.4% - more than 80% of offers on
2004 140 0.5% 40% lolix.org in Ile de France 200
2005 250 0.9% 79% strong growth (+62% in 2004,
+82% in 2005, +40% in 2006)
2006 430 1.4% 72%
2007 730 2.2% 69%
SSII 2004 (M€) 2005 (M€) Growth
Capgemini 7 15 114.3%
Thales DSV 10 14 40%
Atos Origin 9 13.5 50%
Bull 8.5 13 52.9%
It is a breakpoint: SQLI 6.3 12 90.5%
Unilog- 5.5 9.2 67.3%
huge opportunities ahead LogicaCMG
We decided to take action, and create the F/OSS group in the System@tic cluster.
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Positionnement géographique de
SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION
 La partie ouest de l’Ile-de-France : 75, 78, 91, 92, 95 (partiel)

Une montée en puissance rapide
Sept. 2007
5ème appel à
projets FUI
12 octobre 2005 15 déc. 2006
Création de 3ème appel à
l’association 2006
premiers projets de projets FUI
SYSTEM@TIC
12 juillet 2005 PARIS-REGION R&D collaboratifs
Labellisation Acceptation du
du Pôle contrat de pôle
25 novembre 2004 (Pôle mondial)
Appel à projets des
pôles de
compétitivité avril 2007
lancé par l’Etat 4ème appel à
15 mai 2006 projets FUI
2ème appel à
projets FUI
15 février 2006
1er appel à projets Octobre 2007
FUI Intégration du
15 septembre GT Logiciel Libre
2005
28 février 2005 Remise de la
Remise du proposition de
projet de pôle contrat de pôle

The SYSTEM@TIC
competitiveness cluster
Common ground : ICT
Marchés Automobile Sécurité
Télécoms
applicatifs & Transports & Défense
Outils et Outils de Conception et
Logiciel Libre
Technologies Développements de Systèmes
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Comité de Coordination La Gouvernance
Commission Commission des Dominique Vernay
Scientifique Financeurs Thales
Assemblée Générale
Assemblée Générale
Collège Collège Recherche et Collège
Entreprises Enseignement Supérieur Collectivités Locales
Directoire
Collège Collège Recherche et
Entreprises Enseignement Supérieur
Secrétariat
Bureau Exécutif permanent
Groupe Thématique Groupe Thématique
Groupe Thématique Groupe Thématique Groupe Thématique
Automobile & Outils de Conception et
Télécoms Logiciel Libre Sécurité & Déf ense
Transports Développement de Systèmes
Projets de R&D coopératifs
Gilles Le Calvez
Eric Perrin-Pelletier
Valéo Roberto Di Cosmo Gérard Poirier Dominique Potier
Alcatel-Lucent
Université Paris Diderot Dassault Aviation Thales

Our Goals, our members
Federate F/OSS actors in the region
 Research and Education
 Industry
 Code communities, and users
Through R&D projects
 Build F/OSS leveraging the scientific excellence in Ile-de-France
 Foster emergency of a healthy, strong F/OSS industrial ecosystem
 Contribute to the wide recognition of Ile-de-France's F/OSS excellence
Taking into account F/OSS ecosystem's specificities
 The group has a “social contract” asserting
• Commitment to F/OSS in the R&D projects
• Exclusion of F/OSS R&D project from patent threats
Over 50 partners already
 20+ SME, 20+ Research Labs, 10 big firms, consortia (OW2)
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A large community
in Ile-de-France :
more than 50 partners!
ADACORE - ADULLACT - AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - AGORANOV - AIR FRANCE - ALCATEL-
LUCENT - ALTER WAY - ARMINES - ARS APERTA - ARTENUM - BULL -CAP GEMINI - CEA-LIST -
CNAM - CNRS - REGION ILE-DE-FRANCE - CRDP DE PARIS - CENTRALE RECHERCHE SA
(MAS/ECP) - CS - DRIRE - ECP - ECP - MAS - EDF - EDF R&D - EISTI - ENS DE CACHAN - ENSIIE -
ENSTA - EPITA - ESIEA - ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL - EXO PLATFORM - FREE AISNE
VALLEY/PSIL - GET/TELECOM PARIS - GET/INT - IDEALX - INRIA - KALIS - LIMSI - LINBOX - LIP6
- LOGILAB - MAIRIE DE PARIS - MANDRIVA - MOTOROLA - NERIM – NEXEDI - NUXEO -
OBJECTWEB - OPEN TRUST - OPEN WIDE - ORANGE / FRANCE TELECOM - OW2 CONSORTIUM -
OXALYA - PAQTIGO - PRISM - PROFUSUS - ROXEM - PSA - PEUGEOT CITROEN - QUALIXO -
SAGEM DEFENSE ET SECURITE - SOPINSPACE - SUN MICROSYSTEMS - SUPELEC - SYNERTAL -
TAGMATICA - THALES - THALES D3S - THALES SERVICES - UNIVERSITE PARIS 1 / CRI
UNIVERSITE PARIS 11 / LRI - UNIVERSITE PARIS 12 / LACL - UNIVERSITE PARIS 13 / LIPN -
UNIVERSITE PARIS 7 / JUSSIEU - UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT - UNIVERSITE PARIS-EST
MARNE-LA-VALLEE / IGM - UTC - WALLIX GROUPE IF RESEARCH - WIKIMEDIA - XPERTNET
(XWIKI) -
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3 priorities for 3 years
Tools and technology for F/OSS development
 Forges
 Languages SQUALE (Qualixo)
 Metrics and quality
 Licences Helios (Thales)
Information systems Couverture (Adacore)
 CMS, GED, ERP. . .
 Office suites ...
 Linguistic tools. . .
 Middleware. . .
SCRIBO
 IHM. . . (Xpertnet)
F/OSS infrastructure RTEL4I
 Transition and migration of large
(OpenWide)
installed bases
 Administration of large installed bases
 Tools for distributed collaborative
infrastructure
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Breakdown of
project funding
Leader
O SQUALE QUALIXO
U
T
I HELIOS THALES
L Funding
S
COUVERTURE ADACORE
Academia
SI
SME ~ 25%
~ 60%
I SCRIBO XWIKI SAS
Large
N
F Companies
R RTEL4I OpenWide ~ 15%
A
Total cost / funding 15 M€ / 7 M€
More info:
http://www.systematic-paris-region.org/fr/logiciel/index.html
http://www.systematic-paris-region.org/fr/UserFiles/File/news/System@tic_12.pdf
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Fundamentals
World class research and technology
 Research centers
 Universities
 Higher education in ICT
Market opportunities
 Dynamic SMEs
 Big firms, PA clients, local and global market
Open, but selective credit allocation
 Evaluation in the Working Group: relevance to the WG strategy
 Evaluation in the Cluster: relevance to the cluster strategy
 Evaluation by the Ministry of Industry: quality and viability
 And yet, it takes less than 10 months from bare idea to reality
A social contract with the F/OSS community
 Only F/OSS software when funded
 Commitment to fully abstain from patent limitations
on the software funded
 Open dissemination of the results
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The road ahead
Build the roadmap
 R&D
 Education
 Public policies
 Market evolution (including social inclusion and green spending)
Build the ecosystem
 F/OSS changed the traditional ICT scene
 Need a new model of co-opetition
 Explain, explain, explain...
many people are still prisoners of a 30 years old ICT market model
Come to the Open World Forum, december 1st and 2nd 2008 in Paris
http://www.openworldforum.org
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