Ten open source companies have announced the formation
of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a non-profit,
supplier-neutral consortium dedicated to promoting open source
business solutions.
Among its activities, the OSA will work with open source
independent software suppliers, systems integrators, and the
broader open source community to improve interoperability among
software products, with the intent of delivering integrated and
rapidly deployable solutions for business users.
Founding members of the OSA include Adaptive Planning, Centric
CRM, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo,
SourceForge.net, SpikeSource and Talend.
Leading open source companies including Red Hat, IBM and Novell
are not among the members yet.
“More and more companies, from small businesses to global
enterprises, are turning to open source software stacks for
flexible, affordable solutions to their business challenges,” said
Barry Klawans, OSA spokesperson and chief technology officer at
JasperSoft.
“We’re inviting all companies developing and using open source
software to work together and ensure the availability of turnkey,
enterprise-ready solution suites faster and at a fraction of the
cost of traditional proprietary alternatives.”
Initially, the OSA will focus its efforts on defining and
promoting tools, frameworks and best practices that facilitate easy
deployment and interoperability between applications.
It will also build “meta-communities” by partnering on projects
that involve a variety of companies, communities and individuals to
drive innovation and collaboration.
The OSA will also co-ordinate joint marketing campaigns to raise
the awareness of business-hardened, open source applications and
solution suites.
Companies interested in joining the OSA should contact
membership@OpenSolutionsAlliance.org
or visit
www.OpenSolutionsAlliance.org
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