Europe, Brazil and China Unite to Foster Open Source Software to Boost Growth
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| The 20 founding members, across Europe, Brazil and China, are a
| heavyweight group of ICT industry players (Atos Origin, Bull,
| Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, European Dynamics, Siemens,
| Telefonica I+D, Thales), SMEs (Centro Ricerche Matematica Pura e
| Applicata, Mandriva), governments (the Department for innovation
| and technologies of the Italian Presidency of the Council of
| ministers, the French Gendarmerie Nationale, Serpro), and
| academics (Fraunhofer FOKUS, INRIA, the Poznan Supercomputing
| and Networking Center, the State University of Sao Paulo, the
| South China University of Technology / Guangzhou Middleware
| Research Center, the University of Bozen, the University of
| Insubria and the University Rey Juan Carlos). The project is
| funded by the European Commission under its sixth framework
| program (FP6), as part of the Information Society Technologies
| (IST) initiative.
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