Alain Fontaine’s Jabberbox

As the Luxembourg minister of commerce, Jeannot Krecké, announced today, RealNetworks is coming to Luxembourg and moves a big part of its IT operations to a datacenter located in Windhof, Luxembourg. A number of commercial activities will also use Luxembourg as their new homebase.

This is another good move for Luxembourg which has been investing a lot of money and diplomacy into getting global Internet businesses move to Luxembourg, where the tax rates and especially a custom-made tax law regarding intellectual property, make it very interesting for IT service companies to be based in Luxembourg.

Check out the following article about the conference we held at the luxembourgish chamber of commerce. Sorry, it’s just available in french.

http://lequotidien.editpress.lu/news/127/ARTICLE/2232/2009-02-05.html

A video report:

http://tele.rtl.lu/waatleeft/videoarchiv/v/20090204/3/1004922/