Bryan O'Sullivan
(Mercurial)
7/4/06, 9:00 AM
Business and Applications
Mercurial is a distributed revision control system designed for performance and
scalability. Although written in Python, it is faster than most other revision
control tools. This paper discusses the techniques used in Mercurial to achieve such
high performance, and compares its performance on common operations with three other
revision control systems: CVS, Subversion, and Perforce. It...
Mr
Campbell Kevin
(Logicalware)
7/4/06, 9:35 AM
Business and Applications
MailManager is an email response management product written in Python. It is
built on top of Zope and runs against an SQL database. The source code is
freely available under the GPL. MailManager is sold to customers either as
a web based application, an appliance server, or via support contracts.
Additionally, customers often pay for modifications of the software, which
are normally...
Mr
Markus Franz
(Metager2, SuMa-eV)
7/4/06, 10:10 AM
Business and Applications
Two research projects of NEC and the University of Hannover could not be realized
because of technology faults. With Python a 18 year old student from Germany solved
the problems and created a new-class metasearch engine for the WWW. The development
process with problems like high-volumes of data, web crawling, performances iusses
and other topics was easy with Python like with no other...
Mr
Niels Mache
(struktur AG)
7/4/06, 11:00 AM
Business and Applications
The Linux Solution Group (www.lisog.org) is a cooperation platform for companies
and authorities with a strong interest in doing business or running applications
based on Linux and Open Source. Members of the LiSoG range from global
enterprises like IBM, Novell and Red Hat to small businesses, authorities and
users. The session will explain the goals and targets of the LiSoG...
Mr
Xavier Heymans
(Zea Partners)
7/4/06, 11:35 AM
The partnership of Zea (www.zeapartners.org) is focused on
growing
open source and open source business by pooling resources for
collective action as promotion and projects.
With 20 partner companies in 11 countries, ZEA provides a
broad reach
of expertise in content management. The ZEA network
currently totals
a combined staff of over 150 employees and a turnover in
excess of €
9...
Fabio Pliger
(SIA s.r.l.)
7/4/06, 12:10 PM
Business and Applications
Two years have passed since the company I work for (SIA) decided to use Python
to develop applications.
Most of those applications are for pharmaceutical companies with high industrial
and production needs. So, I would like to talk about why we have chosen python,
about the main problems using Python with industrial SCADA frameworks and also
about some results and tips.
To wrap it...
Mr
Charlie Clark
7/4/06, 2:00 PM
Business and Applications
Computers are well-suited for routine, recurring tasks such as data entry.
In fields such as medicine effective use can lead to considerable
improvements in productivity and patient care if doctors spend less time
asking routine questions. As part of a research project at the University
of Aberdeen I have been investigating possible systems. Any system should
require as little maintenance...
Mr
Jean-Yves Le Meur
(CERN), Mr
Thomas Baron
(CERN)
7/4/06, 2:35 PM
Business and Applications
Python has been intensively used at CERN since 2001 by the CERN Document
Server team to provide services in two areas:
- Digital document management within the CDS Invenio application, running
on top of MySQL DB
- Digital conference management within the CDS Indico application, running on
top of a ZOPE DB; and currently used to run EuroPython 06!
In this presentation, after...
Mr
Gaëtan de Menten
(Tiny SPRL)
7/4/06, 3:10 PM
Business and Applications
Tiny ERP is a complete ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer
Relationship Management) package. Its main features include accounting (analytic
and financial), production management (MRP), stock management, sales and
purchases management, and much more. Technical features include flexible
workflows, an object relational mapping (on top of PostgreSQL), a dynamically
built GUI,...
