Vdel: Open source distribution

VDEL GmbH, are Master Distributors of Red Hat, JBoss, EnterpriseDB, Zenoss, Alfresco and products in 12 time zones and 30 countries, every day dealing with people who all together speak over 32 languages. From 2007 to 2010 we built and updated Drupal websites for VDEL and their distribution arm, OSL, and helped migrate and localise content.

In 2008, VDEL launched Open Referent, a solution based on IBM Lotus Notes with Lotus Symphony and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop. This Microsoft desktop alternative brings together the strengths of IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution's email, calendaring, and productivity editor capabilities, Red Hat Linux Desktop operating system, and VDEL document management application services. We advised on the launch, branding and helped prepare the press releases.

More recently in 2011, VDEL, Red Hat and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications.of the Russian Federation launched an initiative to create a new open source training and resource centre - Bureau Solomatina. We edited and localised the associated press releases for the EU and helped publish and distribute them globally.