The Morfeo Community wants to improve a network of contacts that benefits relations with other organizations which work within the development and use of open source software. With this initiative we want to make known new links to promote a collaborative work and obtain a more productive market.
SOLIS – Free and Open Source Software CoOperative
1. Background
Solis is a Free and Open Source Software solutions and services co-operative. Solis was formed as part of regional development project lead by Univates, an University Center located in the city of Lajeado, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil. Originally, Solis’ members were students, professors and former members of Univates’ IT department. Today Solis employs 51 collaborators, including computer engineers, systems analysts and administrators.
2. Solutions
Solis develops and integrates free and open source software products when building a complete solution for its customers. When doing this, Solis takes in consideration the always growing need of
Information and Communication Technologies as the strategic support for its customers. Solus is always in focus with the customer’s own market and business, preserving previous investments and building solutions that are trustworthy and expandable. As a result, Solis’ customers become more competitive, technology independent and empowered by the freedom of choice.
Besides offering a full range of solutions for educational institutions, government and corporations, Solis also develops solutions specifically tailored to the needs of its customers and designs and manages systems migration to free and open source software based solutions.
Solis includes in its solutions, along with products developed by the co-operative, other free and open source software made available by the development community. Among these community products used by Solis are the GNU/Linux operating system, the OpenOffice.Org office suite and web services such as apache.
Solis offers installation services, technical support and training for all of the solutions it delivers. Network infrastructure services, including email security, environment management are also services offered by Solis so the customer’s can consider Solis a one-stop shop for all of its IT needs.
Solis also provides consulting services for a wide variety of systems and products provided by the free and open source software development community.
