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From: Fabrice Mous <fabrice at kde.nl>
Dept: where-partnerships-are-being-made
Date: Thursday 03/Jun/2004, @13:34

Bull Offers Services in the Netherlands on the KDE desktop
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   This week Bull Netherland [http://www.bull.nl/] announced on their
website [http://www.bull.nl/nieuws/pr-KDE1.html] that they will offer
services on the KDE desktop [http://www.kde.org/]. A large and public
company providing KDE support is something many KDE users (and, more
importantly, potential users) will be very interested in. The Dutch KDE
Team [http://www.kde.nl/] has translated the original announcement to
English.


  I.  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 Netherland 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.


A. ABOUT BULL

     Bull Netherland 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.
 [http://www.bull.nl/]

B. ABOUT KDE

     KDE [http://www.kde.org/] 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)
[http://www.koffice.org/], a large set of networking and administration
tools and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment
featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop [http://www.kdevelop.org/]. 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 Netherland lex.de-weille at bull.nl [lex.de-weille at bull.nl]
www.bull.nl [http://www.bull.nl/]  KDE-NL fabrice at kde.nl
[fabrice at kde.nl] www.kde.nl [http://www.kde.nl/]