Júnior Mulinari is the current president of Solis. Used Bablefish  to translate their home-page. Interesting… you can understand quite a bit in that way.

Some of the products they have listed include:

Solutions for the Educational Management

Fred – Manager of Web Contents

Gnuteca – System of Management of Quantity, Loan and Contribution for Libraries

Sagu – Open System of Unified Management

Solutions for Corporatives

• Right on top, along with the logo of a set of colourful colour-pencils, they have a “set of Solis solutions meant for universities, including for academic management …  that follows the life of the student from the time of admission through to tests   and until graduation” (free translation).

A quote: “Solis reflects ability and innovation generated by human capital, in its services. This is its larger heritage.”

Contacts for Solis:  SOLIS – Cooperativa de Soluções Livres, Av. Sete de Setembro, 184 – Sala 401, Bairro Moinhos – 95900-000 – Lajeado (RS), Fone: +55 51 3714-6653 comercial@solis.coop.br

Some background, courtesy Cesar Brod: Univates is the acronym for University of the Taquari River Valley Area. Today it is the brand name for the University Centre in the same Taquari River Valley. Solis means “the Sun”, in Latin, but is also an acronym for SOftware LIvre Soluções – Free Software Solutions. Solis works in a pretty strict co-op, associative sense.

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