Российский СПО-Саммит, 8 октября 2008 г., Москва, гостиница «Рэдиссон САС Славянская» 15 YEARS OF VDEL how we got here and where we are going Milan Prohaska

VDEL – The beginning Volgodonsk Electronics Ltd. Operating only in Russia and CIS Focus on Services Only Started as a one man show (+assistant & 2drivers)‏ Start with Accpac ERP – Over 100 instalations ORACLE Financials, MANMAN/X, Q-Data In 1998 over 70 people working on implementation

VDEL – Expanding Market Volgodonsk Electronics becomes VDEL GmbH Territory - East of Berlin and North of Mongolia Distribution & Services Vienna HQ, Moscow, Kiev, Belgrade Distribution of Software – Accpac, (Brio) Hyperion Transferring the know-how of implementation Consulting IBM – Solution Channel

VDEL – Distribution of Services VDEL Alliance Territory – Emerging Markets Distribution of Services focus Started with SuSE, moved to Red Hat in st Authorized Red Hat Support Partner in the world Support centers in Moscow, Vrsac Development center in Minsk

Where do we go from here? SoftwareUnited – an Open Brand Merger of Open Source and Licensed Software Apple model for user experience Setting up of Application Exchange Development of appliance specific solutions Creation of Support Grid Open Source Model as the base

Open Source Model Community Enterprise Support Distribution Business Application Users

Community Education – Free Red Hat University program Competence Centers – Universities Development Centers – VNIINS (Russia), NIITZI (Belorus)‏ Max Spevack – Fedora Leader will be in Moscow On 20 th of November to help with organization of Eastern European Fedora Community

Distribution EE FedoraProject starts on 5 th of December will be opened by Jim Whitehurst – RedHat CEO Officially part of FedoraProject Worldwide VNIINS will be Technological Base VDEL will organize community effort Red Hat will support upstream of the development

Corporate Support RHEL Support centre based in Russia, Serbia NCPR Supports FSTEK Certified Version of RHEL OED Level 4 NVD level 4 OOO' Open Source' Specialized Support center for Desktop in Belorus RHEL / IBM - 1 st to comply to Belorus Government

Business Applications SoftwareUnited – power of IBM & RedHat Platform for Independent Software Vendors Desktop & Server IBM software on Red Hat The power of Lotus, Tivoli, DB2, Informix Sold only with Added Value Solutions Unbeatable Price Performance Finally a true Microsoft-Free alternative

Customer VDEL believes in Value Add VDEL believes in Freedom to choose VDEL believes in borderless world of IT VDEL believes in Price Performance VDEL believes in Open Source