Independant software vendors

Editions Profil, a European, Paris-based private corporation founded in 1989, develops, publishes and distributes software products for multiple activity sectors, both for professionals and for consumers. Editions Profil has built a large catalog of solutions in numerous domains, including the office and productivity sectors. In recent years Editions Profil has especially focused on the design and distribution of tools for computer security and general data protection. Editions Profil notably publishes the security solutions BitDefender and Parental Filter, as well as Farstone solutions, and distributes the Kroll-Ontrack data recovery and MS Exchange server management solutions.

Exalead provides a versatile web search engine which is highly-ranked - right after Yahoo! and Google [source BusinessWeek].
Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is an international technology provider for information search and retrieval in organizations of all sizes. Today, Exalead software is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing, sports, entertainment, and telecommunications companies around the world.

Vecsys is is specialized in speech recognition. Vecsys-Research develops speech processing technologies such as multilingual, large vocabulary speech recognition systems for automatic audio indexing applications, as well as related technologies for language identification and speaker recognition.