OpenBravo, producer of an ERP solution and a POS solution (from the acquisition of LibrePOS), announced it secured $12M in funding. Partners in this round include the GIMV, "the largest investment company in Belgium".

The province of Namur is switching to a Voice over IP solution based on Asterisk. The solution is provided by Escaux, which was present at the Profoss Asterisk event in october.

The Brussels region validated a multimedia plan that gives extra hardware resources to schools that save on licenses costs by using Free and Open Source software. The plan is to invest 3.5 millions euros in IT in secundary schools. Schools are free to choose between an all Free Software solution, or a computer with an additional windows installation.

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The Agence Wallone des Télécommunications (Walloon Agency for Telecommunications), a partner of Profoss, has published a study about the use of ICT in the walloon municipalities. It appears that the best known environment is Linux, mastered by 23%, before dotNet (17%). More than 1 out of 4 munipalities use an open source project as their server application, and of those only 12% have no dedicated computer personel.

Software about which the municipalities are the least happy are those managing works, cemeteries, urbanism and the police. Time to develop an free and opens source solution for those tasks?

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