Bull to Offer Services on Linux/UNIX-Desktop KDE

The following is a press release coming from the Dutch KDE Team (www.kde.nl) 
and Bull (www.bull.nl). This announcement can also be found on the KDE News 
website http://dot.kde.org/1086262483/ 

Kind regards, 

Fabrice Mous

Bull to Offer Services on Linux/UNIX-Desktop KDE 


June 2, 2004 

Regularly costumers face the question how they can provide for implementation, 
administration and maintenance of Linux desktop with a limited budget. Today 
Bull Netherlands announces to provide services and solutions around KDE, the 
most well known graphical environment for Linux. As of today companies can 
have professional support from Bull when migrating to Linux systems with a 
KDE desktop. With this Bull proves that it can offer a credible alternative 
to commercial software independently from their software suppliers.

Bull has strengthened its involvement with this step by offering desktop Linux 
solutions along side their server solutions. That way Bull broadens its 
pallet of flexible IT solutions for their costumers. The KDE desktop combined 
with GNU/Linux or another UNIX-like system, offers an excellent solution for 
businesses who want to keep their IT budgets under control. By using KDE, 
businesses, government departments and other organizations can escape from 
the enormous licensing costs that business software often requires.

 

About Bull 

Bull Netherlands is part of the successful European Bull Group, situated and 
quoted on stock exchange in Paris with over 8 000 employees worldwide and 
active in many countries. Bull designs and develops servers and software for 
an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. It brings to 
its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation 
of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and 
their applications. In the Netherlands Bull has 180 employees. 

Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, 
telecommunication and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, 
the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes 
of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its 
customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide. 
Look for more information on www.bull.nl.

 

About KDE

KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists 
and professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and 
freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office 
environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent 
architecture and offering an outstanding development platform. KDE provides a 
stable, mature desktop, a full, component-based office suite (KOffice), a 
large set of networking and administration tools and utilities, and an 
efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE 
KDevelop. KDE is working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software 
development model can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior 
to even the most complex commercial software. 


Trademarks Notices. KDE, K Desktop Environment, KDevelop and KOffice are 
trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. 
UNIX and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group. All other 
trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property 
of their respective owners. 


More information:
 
Bull Netherlands
 lex.de-weille@bull.nl
 www.bull.nl 
 
KDE-NL
 fabrice@kde.nl
 www.kde.nl 

 

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Fabrice Mous  | fabrice@kde.nl | www.kde.nl