System@tic

The pole of competence System@tic represents the technology cluster located in the region Ile-de-France in which over 540 organizations, including 310 small and medium-sized businesses and 90 research and educational institutions are joint. The System@tic projects affect in total 320,000 employees of the private organizations and 11,000 employees of public research organizations.

Software development with the open code

In August, 2010 System@tic announced receiving a government grant in the amount of 20 million euros for 3 research projects on software development with the open code: Compatible One, Easy SOA and Squash. Taking into account the provided grant the general project budget will make 55.2 million euros. Financing from the state is selected from Uniform interdepartmental fund which provides funds for the projects suitable for commercialization in the short-term and medium term.

The free software is one of 7 theme groups around which research activity of a pole of competence System@tic concentrates. The Compatible One, Easy SOA and Squash projects were initiated within a theme group according to the free software.

The Compatible One project is devoted to creation of free tools in the field of cloud computing. Easy SOA is directed to creation of the free platform for creating applications with service-oriented architecture. The Squash project is devoted to creation of free tools and the methodology allowing to perform functional testing of software commercially.

Competitors

As projects are only announced, to judge prematurely their success. Nevertheless, it is clear that they should sustain rather keen competition from similar initiatives. In particular, a direct competitor of Compatible One is the OpenStack project which is recently announced by the American hosting provider RackSpace and supported by NASA, Citrix, Dell and other market participants.