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OpenSAF Foundation Joins Mountain View Alliance
OpenSAF Foundation Joins Mountain View Alliance
(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 19, 2008 ) Mountain View, CA – The Mountain View Alliance (MVA), a consortium of open specification and open source development groups and related trade associations, today announced that the recently formed OpenSAF Foundation has joined as a new member. This addition brings the MVA membership to nine leading organizations representing more than 1000 companies ranging from carriers to component vendors.
“We are pleased to have the OpenSAF Foundation join the Mountain View Alliance,” said Rob Davidson, PICMG representative to the MVA. “The OpenSAF Foundation adds a new and very important dimension to the Mountain View Alliance in representing an open source project focused on the base platform middleware environment that is crucial to completing a commercial off-the-shelf based High Availability base platform,” he added.
The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Enterprise Computing Companies to develop an open source, base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) specifications and SCOPE Alliance recommendations. SA Forum and SCOPE are both members of the MVA. As a new member of the MVA, OpenSAF Foundation looks forward to participating in the MVA Comms Ecosystem Conference (MVACEC08), along side the other MVA member organizations, in San Francisco on March 11-12, 2008. Visit www.mvacec.com for details.
About OpenSAF Foundation:
OpenSAF is an Open Source Project established to develop a base platform High Availability middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Computing Companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products.
The OpenSAF Project was launched in mid 2007 and has been under development by an informal group of supporters of the OpenSAF initiative. The OpenSAF Foundation was founded on January 22, 2008 with Emerson Network Power, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, HP and Sun Microsystems as founding members. For more information, see: www.opensaf.org
About the Mountain View Alliance
The mission of the Mountain View Alliance is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings and outreach activities. As the need arises, the Mountain View Alliance will also facilitate multi-faceted cooperation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the Mountain View Alliance aims to promote a diverse and thriving PICMG em of open specification-based components and platforms. The Mountain View Alliance members are: the Communications Platforms Trade Association™, The Linux Foundation, OpenSAF Foundation, the Optical Internetworking Forum, PICMG®, RapidIO® Trade Association, SCOPE Alliance, the Service Availability Forum™, and the TM Forum. For more information please see www.mountainviewalliance.org
“We are pleased to have the OpenSAF Foundation join the Mountain View Alliance,” said Rob Davidson, PICMG representative to the MVA. “The OpenSAF Foundation adds a new and very important dimension to the Mountain View Alliance in representing an open source project focused on the base platform middleware environment that is crucial to completing a commercial off-the-shelf based High Availability base platform,” he added.
The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Enterprise Computing Companies to develop an open source, base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) specifications and SCOPE Alliance recommendations. SA Forum and SCOPE are both members of the MVA. As a new member of the MVA, OpenSAF Foundation looks forward to participating in the MVA Comms Ecosystem Conference (MVACEC08), along side the other MVA member organizations, in San Francisco on March 11-12, 2008. Visit www.mvacec.com for details.
About OpenSAF Foundation:
OpenSAF is an Open Source Project established to develop a base platform High Availability middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum™ (SA Forum) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Computing Companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products.
The OpenSAF Project was launched in mid 2007 and has been under development by an informal group of supporters of the OpenSAF initiative. The OpenSAF Foundation was founded on January 22, 2008 with Emerson Network Power, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, HP and Sun Microsystems as founding members. For more information, see: www.opensaf.org
About the Mountain View Alliance
The mission of the Mountain View Alliance is to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings and outreach activities. As the need arises, the Mountain View Alliance will also facilitate multi-faceted cooperation between its member organizations. Through such activities, the Mountain View Alliance aims to promote a diverse and thriving PICMG em of open specification-based components and platforms. The Mountain View Alliance members are: the Communications Platforms Trade Association™, The Linux Foundation, OpenSAF Foundation, the Optical Internetworking Forum, PICMG®, RapidIO® Trade Association, SCOPE Alliance, the Service Availability Forum™, and the TM Forum. For more information please see www.mountainviewalliance.org