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Originally dedicated department of the open source editor EBM Websourcing, our team is now leading and raising LINAGORA Research Labs since EBM Websourcing buy-out in June 2012. Building on a strong experience in research and innovation, we usually contribute to several projects mandated by French or European administrations, while building trust relationships with dozens of industrials, research laboratories and universities. These R&D initiatives ensures us to have the best possible vision of market trends and nascent technologies. |
As of now (2013 September), we lead or contribute in the following projects: Choreos, Play, Contrail, OpenPaaS, gSafe, OpenCloudware.
Objectives
We historically focused on fields pertaining large-scale infrastructure management, among which Services Oriented Architectures, Business Process Modeling, distributed systems, to scout for the best innovations and methodologies of conception to integrate into future versions of our products. These fields have been mainly divided
Since the integration of historical team within LINAGORA as its dedicated research department, we expanded our scope to include hot topics that may benefit LINAGORA's own products, such as the collaborative platform OBM or the sharing tool LinShare. As such, we acquired the lead on several leading research projects ordered by French research institutions, such as OpenPaaS or gSafe, and several others on their way.
Today, we continually seek to improve flexibility, agility and interoperability of our solutions and our on-going research is conducted in the following areas:
- Open source infrastructure for SOA in the cloud: interoperability and scalability across inter-organizational networks.
- Business process modelling: BPM, model transformation, orchestration and choreography.
- Collaborative engineering: ontology and semantic services, intelligent processing and collaborative development.
Read more about LINAGORA research thematics.
Values
Since the beginning, we believe that open source is the right way of building software. Many have a one-sided relationship with open source software, even criticizing viability of companies built on it. We instead see it as a chance, as the best way to help people with their IT while improving ourselves. As such, we always push open source distribution politics in our projects.
Moreover, all the code we produce is open source (mainly LGPL, some Eclipse or AGPL), for you to browse, test and reuse (in which case some thanks/feedback will always be appreciated. 
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Browse LINAGORA research results.
Strategy
To maximise the innovation in the minimum of time and resources, we build our activity by combining three core ideas:
- get a strong core team: we hire PhD (achieved or ongoing) specialized in our core fields, to make the link between research projects and products.
- know your limits: one can not know all. That's why we built a strong partnership politics, with today several dozens partners, and an inner circle of nearly twenty entities.
- don't reinvent the wheel: following a long-term vision, we make links between research projects to reuse previous project's ideas and code.