The French Government promotes support of free software. Mageia.Org is a French association. I think it would be great if the Mageia was included as one of the entities benefiting from this project. Could this be possible?
- Site: H-Open - 25 June 2012 - France awards €2 million open source support tender
- Site: Lemonde Informatique.fr - 16/november/2011 - The state of France launches a tender on maintenance of free software (french and english)
- Ten areas to cover are:
1 -SYSTEMS Operating software and associated base: Debian and CentOS, virtualization tool such as KVM
2 - Presentation servers and application : Apache, Tomcat, JonAS, CMS
3 - Languages and development frameworks : JAVA, PHP, XML, Perl, Eclipse, Struts
4 - SGBD : PostgreSQL, MySQL
5 - Office : OpenOffice
6 - Network tools and supervision and operation : Ethereal, Jmeter, Nagios
7 - Security tools : Tripwire, OpenSSL
8 - Directory services and messaging : OpenLDAP, Sendmail
9 - Portals and document management, knowledge management : Nuxeo, Ezpublish, Alfresco
10 - Indexing and search : Lucene, Zettair