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Paul Rivier: "AtikTeam would never be born without the emergence the open source economy"

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Demotera company and its solution -AtikTeam- recently joined the FCA. We had an interview with Paul Rivier, Demotera CEO, in order to know more about AtikTeam and about their vision on Open Source.

M. Rivier, could you tell us about AtikTeam and the story behind the tool?

AtikTeam was born in early 2008 from the increasing need from the organizations' part to have a collaboration tool which would be simple, reliable, secure and accessible on the Internet. Demotera therefore began a deep study of the technical landscape, particularly the standards and Open Source components which would be relevant to build up such an offer. It was the perfect time to do it since web applications based on standards were emerging. After several months of investigation and tests, we chose to use the MVC framework Ruby on Rails for the applicative part and PostgreSQL for the relational model part. We had the chance to begin from a free and high quality application which already existed -Redmine- and we have made it evolved to meet the needs of the companies in terms of collaboration. Of course, we've used many other open source systems listed on the page below -without them, AtikTeam would have perhaps never existed:

http://www.atikteam.com/presentation/technologies

How many companies use AtikTeam?

AtikTeam is a collaboration tool used by several organizations to work in partnership. Their accounts are completely private, therefore we can not accurately assess the total number of organizations which currently use AtikTeam. However, thanks to regular contacts with some of our customers, we estimate this number over 20 now while we have hundreds of users in all.

Does any large corporation use AtikTeam? How many users?

VINCI Construction France is currently using our service as part of a "Chair" partnership between industry and research team around a given theme. This project involves a fifty employees on AtikTeam platform.

From your point of view, what brings the open source distribution to AtikTeam? How do you contribute to open source?

AtikTeam would never be born without the emergence the Open Source economy. This movement has helped revive a healthy competition on the productive segments of value creation, while pooling many efforts to build up a solid and commom base accessible to newcomers. All the best things that comes of the Web and of the Internet in general are based on open source. In a word, the quality of an entire segment of the economy suddenly raised up thanks to the model of open source. Logically, the work we made on AtikTeam has benefited to many components which needed to be extended or corrected, such as Redmine, OpenLDAP, Debian, GNU Emacs or even DokuWiki! As developers, we always seek to integrate "upstream" the changes that we bring to a software, because it is the best guaf maintainability on a long term period.

What made you want to enter the FCA ?

We believe that the Software as a Service model will enable businesses of all sizes to access better-quality computing services in terms of cost, functionality, reactivity and reliability. But we do not want this to happen with a total dependence on the user to the provider, because this precisely opposed to the progress made by the Open Source. Thus, we wish that the user can decide at any time to host independently his application and his data. So we've joined the FCA.

What do you think of the definition of exposed TIO Available in: Http://www.tiolibre.com/guideline/tiolibre-Libre.Definition?

We agree with these definitions. As a member of the Free Software Foundation, I know that a great work on SaaS issues takes place at this moment, as shown by the recent publication of Richard Stallman:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

We agree with Richard as regards the principle of the risks incurred by users, and we believe that TIO proposals mentioned above are likely to defend the freedom of our services.

Interview by Elodie Pot - writer

Demotera - http://www.demotera.com

AtikTeam - http://www.atikteam.com

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