Partner of the World eDemocracy Forum, French company Bull and brazilian Serpro (Brazil's largest State-owned IT services agency) are announcing that they have reached a ground-breaking collaborative agreement, focused around the joint development of innovative Open Source and free software technologies for e-government services.
Through this agreement SERPRO (Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados) and the Brazilian State will have access to Bull's most innovative Open Source technologies, which are mainly developed by Bull at its state-of-the-art R&D laboratories, mainly located in Grenoble, France. It will help Brazil, already the worldwide pioneer country in the use of Open Source for e-government services go one step further in the development of next generation Open Source-based e-government and education services.
The agreement will extend and improve the existing relationship on Open Source between SERPRO and Bull established inside the OW2 consortium, the world leader in open middleware solutions.
