General Manager
Antartec S.A.C.
Lima, Perú
Peruvian startup created to provide professional support to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS).- In the year 2005, Free and Open Source Software wasn’t widely used by businesses in Perú because they feared the lack of professional support. I founded Antartec to research the existing F/OSS products, like Alfresco ECM, Moodle LMS, Liferay Portal, Asterisk PBX, SugarCRM, Pentaho BI, Zimbra Collaboration Services, etc. providing support in the peruvian market. Supported by us, our clients started reaping the benefits of using F/OSS with the backing of a team of software engineers located in Perú.- Free and Open Source Software wasn’t publicized in Perú. The government laws that forced their entities to consider it during their public tenders for solutions didn’t exist yet, and the strong marketing campaigns launched by privative software increased misinformation. Using “guerrilla marketing”, and leveraging the acquired knowledge, we spread it through conferences and events at universities and prestigious institutions, where we were invited as speakers. The result was an immediate increase of our sales, acquiring new important peruvian clients, like PUCP, UPC, CIBERTEC, IPAE, AJE Group, OSINERGMIN, SODIMAC, etc.- We became international through a commercial alliance with NorthSouth Studios LLC., US-based company with peruvian operations, dedicated to perform design and technology project in the USA, becoming an important source of new projects.