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Savoir-faire Linux

Industry	Open-source software and digital electronics
Founded	1999; 25 years ago (1999) Montreal, Québec, Canada
Founder	Cyrille Béraud Jean-Christophe Derré
Headquarters	Montreal, Québec, Canada
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Cyrille Béraud (President & CEO)
Services	Business services Product engineering Project engineering DevOps
Number of employees	125
Website	www.savoirfairelinux.com/en/

Savoir-faire Linux is a Canadian company that specializes in open source software and digital electronics. Savoir-faire Linux is one of the largest open source companies in Canada. Headquartered in Montreal, the company has Canadian offices in Quebec City, Ottawa, and Toronto, as well as two French offices in Paris and Lyon.

History

Savoir-faire was founded in 1999 by Cyrille Béraud and Jean-Christophe Derré. Today, the company has several offices in Canada (4) and France (2).

Partnerships

Savoir-faire Linux is a silver member of The Linux Foundation.^[1]

Research and development

Ring

SFLPhone is a Softphone designed to manage an unlimited number of lines and calls for enterprises. Compliant with industry standards such as SIP and IAX, it interoperates with Asterisk, the Open Source Software PBX.^[2]

Ring builds on SFLPhone, removing its bottleneck and main security risk: the centralized service. Ring uses the same technology as Bittorrent to allow users to find each other, from there allowing them to connect directly one-to-one and one-to-many.^[3]

SFLVault

Launched in 2008, SFLVault simplifies the management of access keys and passwords to large portfolio of services.^[4]

SFLvault is a networked credentials store and authentication manager. It has a client/vault (server) architecture allowing to cryptographically store and organise loads of passwords for different machines and services.

Leadership

Savoir-faire Linux has gained recognition in Quebec by making the provincial government accountable for its IT practices. Treasury Board President Michelle Courchesne announced the Quebec Government will favour Free Software when it makes economic sense.^[5] For example, the Ministry of Education could save $450 million by introducing Free Software in schools.^[6]