With the opening of online games expected on January 1st 2010 in France, La Française des Jeux which hold the monopoly in gamble on the French territory from its creation in 1974 is setting up its strategy for facing it. For his presence on the web, this state enterprise decided to equip itself with efficient and modern software. So, it has recourse to CyberArts, an American company in San Fransisco, leader and world specialist on software development and online games website building. Even if the French online gambles will be open only on the beginning of 2010, the new site of FDJ, equipped with this software has to be operational before the end of this year by using virtual money.

For « La Française des Jeux », the first version will be used to familiarise customers. The version with a charge for admission will be online only after the issue of the gamble liberalization text. On the other hand, for CyberArts, this agreement with La Française des Jeux comes on top of several other alliances that the enterprise signed recently. It gets taken on the development of software for an Italian website and for two great American web portal of poker. With the current preparation of different texts on poker in order to the liberalization of gamble markets in Europe, these software designers record a dazzling increase of their orders. In France, some points of disagreement between operators and the State are still hanging before the text promulgation like taxation which is too high with a rate of 7.5% on the turnover and the players gains limited at 80-85 % of their stake.

Source:  Poker777.com

Monday, 18 May 2009