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1. Caixa M á gica Software: A brief overview of a research approach Paulo Trezentos: [email_address] http://twitter.com/PauloTrezentos Partner / Technical Director John Thomson: [email_address] Researcher Friday, 29 th January 2010

3. Linux Caixa M á gica is the main Linux Distribution available in Portugal and in 2000 one of the co-founders was awarded the Pr é mio Mil é nio 2000 Expresso award for the project.

4. Originally based in the research centre of ISCTE, ADETTI it soon outgrew the available resources and has relocated twice to larger offices.

6. Finished 2009 with Revenue over 5 M euros

7. Employers: > 30

9. Appliances : CAMES “powered by Ipbrick”

10. Consulting : Projects and involvement in F/OSS and areas relating to technology.

11. R & D: Innovation at all levels and through all aspects.

12. Business: Helping customers realise the benefits that F/OSS allow for.

15. 111.000 PCs at portuguese schools (dual-boot)

16. 450.000 Magalhaes netbook (dual-boot)

20. Choice of Gnome 2.26 /KDE 4.2.

21. Many packages and applications have had partial if not full translations to Portuguese.

22. RPM based system that uses a port of APT, APT-RPM.

23. Live CD (Pen)

25. Course recognised by Ministério da Ciência e Ensino Superior

26. In partnership with UOC – Universidade Aberta da Catalunha

27. http://moss.dcti.iscte.pt

30. Many other projects in the pipeline and that have been bidded for.

31. Work with a multitude of top-tier Universities and research institutions.

33. Managing software complexity (e.g. Software packages)

35. 4.4 M Euros (CM: 594 K euros)

36. 10 partners from 6 countries

39. It has been collecting reports and generating statistics about problems and corresponding packages since September 2009.

40. It serves both as a source of information for Caixa Magica QA and as input for the MANCOOSI solver competition.

42. Patents : we are against, signed OIN, but when in a project we respect consortium decision

43. Copyright : default license is GPL V2 but is some exceptional cases other license may be used (Minisat+ -> BSD,...) Brand Patents Copyright

45. Revenue is generated through services, consultancy and support, leveraged by having better Internal Business Processes than our competitors

46. Thank you.