Thursday, 15 February 2007

EnterpriseDB Establish Open Solutions Alliance (OSA)

EnterpriseDB, maker of database, has joined other open source companies to establish a non-profit industry organisation called the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). The mission of the OSA is to promote enterprise adoption of open source-based business solutions. Together, the organisation's member companies will work to improve interoperability among open source-based software products, to align open source communities with the OSA's goals of open source interoperability and innovation, and to conduct joint marketing programs to promote enterprise awareness of open source-based business solutions, the company said in a statement.

The following ten companies have joined the organisation as founding members: Adaptive Planning, Centric CRM, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo, SourceForge.net, SpikeSource, and Talend.

"Business solutions based on open source software can offer enterprises significant advantages, including lower cost and higher code quality, over solutions based on traditional proprietary software," said Andy Astor, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "We're pleased to work together with the other industry leaders in the OSA to promote and extend those advantages."