OpenSAF Reports Large Gains in Market Traction

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenSAF™, an open source community with projects focused on high availability (HA) middleware, today announced that growing demand for service availability and open source solutions within key industries is driving adoption and increasing the number of developers working with OpenSAF.

“2010 was an exciting year for the OpenSAF community, with our ecosystem increasing to more than 45 core developers due to several commercial deployments and interest from new market segments like Aerospace and Defense”

“2010 was an exciting year for the OpenSAF community, with our ecosystem increasing to more than 45 core developers due to several commercial deployments and interest from new market segments like Aerospace and Defense,” said Monica Hatlen, president, OpenSAF Foundation. “We plan to capitalize on this success in 2011, channeling our efforts toward educating developers and users about the business and technical benefits of developing and deploying OpenSAF technology.”

2010 OpenSAF Milestones

The OpenSAF community continued to build momentum over the past year through several key industry achievements, including the following:

OpenSAF announced the release of OpenSAF 4.0, which introduced several key new features including increased modularity as well as software and platform management. This series of improvements makes OpenSAF the most scalable, robust and comprehensive implementation of Service Availability™ Forum standards
Ericsson announced commercial deployment of OpenSAF in the Ericsson Composition Engine representing the first public statement by a major equipment manufacturer on commercial adoption, development and deployment of OpenSAF
GoAhead Software announced commercial deployment of OpenSAF in OpenSAFfire Version 6.0, setting the stage for a dynamic period of rapid adoption
The addition of new members GoAhead Software and MontaVista further expanded the OpenSAF ecosystem. They join the growing list of industry leaders who are members of OpenSAF
Leading technologists and OpenSAF developers from Ericsson, GoAhead Software, HP and Wind River Systems presented at the 2010 Developer Days Conference

2011 Roadmap

OpenSAF is an evolving platform that responds to the needs of the wider high availability and mission critical communities. There are a number of new plans in place to build on the momentum of OpenSAF 4.0. For the next release, the community will address features like Python APIs, further Java integration and general usability, overload and performance enhancements. Visit the OpenSAF project site and view the roadmap for more details.

OpenSAF will also work in 2011 to educate developers about the best practices for implementing the OpenSAF Project architecture into diverse platforms, and share how implementing OpenSAF solutions can impact the bottom line.

2011 OpenSAF Conference

The 2011 OpenSAF Conference (formerly Developer Days) is a conference for the open source, mission critical and HA middleware community. This year’s conference expands beyond the developer audience to also include users, adopters and academics who are interested in obtaining a general overview of the OpenSAF Project architecture, features and code base. Additional sessions will focus on developers seeking detailed and practical exposure to the OpenSAF code and the development of OpenSAF-based highly available applications. To register for the conference, please click here.

Supporting Resources

To learn more about OpenSAF visit: http://www.opensaf.org
For more information on OpenSAF 4.0: http://opensaf.org/HOA/assn14944/images/OpenSAFBrochureFINAL.pdf
To download the latest OpenSAF software releases: http://devel.opensaf.org/wiki/downloads
To view the full 2011 Conference agenda: http://www.opensaf.org/link/linkshow.asp?link_id=335835

About OpenSAF

The OpenSAF™ Project is an open source project established to develop a base platform of high-availability middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) specifications. 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 code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (LGPL v2.1). Anyone may participate in the OpenSAF Project by downloading the code and contributing to the development project. More information about the OpenSAF Foundation is available at www.opensaf.org.

OpenSAF™ is a trademark of the OpenSAF Foundation.

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