FROM SCIENCE TO BUSINESS

Free SCILAB Software

Dr. Claude Gomez Scilab Enterprises CEO

Numerical Computation: Domain and Market

Major scientific challenges

Education

Research

Industry

Strategic industry and service

sectors

BUSINESS MODEL CHOICE

• Free and Open Source

• Choice of the appropriate license: for community and

companies

• Software must be adapted

• Economic model: free professional software

• Funding?

According to the market and the competitors

SOFTWARE EVOLUTION

• Adaptation to free and open source

• Cleaning

• Internal modules easy to modify and maintain

• Industrialisation

• Future:

• Ready for new computer generation:

new kernel, HPC (multicore, GPU),

embedded systems …

Scilab 6

Scilab 5

• INRIA + DIGITEO + Consortium of Academics and Companies

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• Consortium : 24 members

• ANR, competitiveness clusters (SYSTEMATIC), Europe (FP7)

Dedicated team with 18 people:

Funding (2003 – 2012) :

Development

Maintenance

Promotion

ECONOMIC MODEL: step1

Secure the future:

Training

Development and optimization of applications

Customized versions

Migrations to Scilab

Scilab in the Cloud: Scilab As a Service and HPC

Professional external modules

Support and services are needed

Scilab = Free software

funded by

delivering

ECONOMIC MODEL: step 2

Creation in June 2010 of the SCILAB ENTERPRISES company

and publishing

PLUS WORLDWIDE PARTNERSHIP

Services, development, promotion

Scilab Enterprises

Partnership

Example: EQUALIS for on line support

CONCLUSION

1. Choose the good license and economic model:

depends on the domain and on the market

2. Adapt the software for both Free Community and

Industry

3. Deliver worldwide the needed services

Key points: