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“Open source Guide The best of open source” Page 2 PREAMBLE SMILE Smile is a company of engineers specialising in the implementation of open source solutions and the integration of open source based systems. Smile is a member of APRIL, the association for the promotion and defence of open source software, PLOSS, a network of open source software companies in the Ile-de-France region, and CNLL, the French open source software council. FR Smile has a staff of over 700 throughout the world, more than 550 of whom are in France (as . at December 2012), making it the largest integrator of open source solutions in France and Europe. Since approximately 2000, Smile has been actively monitoring technological developments, SMILE which has enabled it to discover the most promising open source products, to qualify and . assess them so as to offer its clients the most successful, robust and sustainable products. This approach has led to a range of white papers covering various fields of application: content management (2004), portals (2005), business intelligence (2006), PHP frameworks (2007), virtualisation (2007), electronic document management (2008), ERPs (2008), open WWW source VPNs (2009), firewalls and flow controls (2009), message oriented middleware (2009), e-commerce and corporate social networks (2010), the Guide to Open Source and NoSQL (2011) and, more recently, mobile and open source census and compliance tools (2012). Each of these works presents a selection of the best open source solutions for the domain in question, their respective qualities as well as operational feedback. As open source solutions continue to acquire new domains, Smile will be there to help its clients benefit from these in a risk-free way.
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