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 1993-1998

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 1998-2003

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 2003-2008

VDEL Alliance

Territory – Emerging Markets

Distribution of Services focus

Started with SuSE, moved to Red Hat in 2004

1st Authorized Red Hat Support Partner in the world

Support centers in Moscow, Vrsac

Development center in Minsk

Where do we go from here? 2008 ...

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 20th of November to help with organization of

Eastern European Fedora Community

Distribution

EE FedoraProject starts on 5th 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 - 1st 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