OpenSAF Community Support
OpenSAF has gained strong momentum in the last year with a growing number of users and the availability of OpenSAF Release 4.0. This growth would not be possible without support from the open source, high availability community. The summary of press release quotes below provides a snapshot of the growing enthusiasm for OpenSAF among some of the key leaders in the high availability ecosystem.
Ericsson
"With Release 4.0, OpenSAF has reached a level of maturity that will broaden its reach and cross-industry impact," said Monica Hatlen of Ericsson, President of the OpenSAF Foundation. "Release 4.0 in many ways fulfills the vision of the initial OpenSAF community when the project was created, and we are proud to offer it to the world. It delivers a cost-effective, standards-based way to create highly available and reliable networks, and its new management features take a big step toward solving larger problems, including network saturation from increased smartphone use. Consumers also will reap this benefit as mobile traffic continues to grow."
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GoAhead Software
"The adoption of open source by industry leaders combined with the rapid maturing of OpenSAF technology makes the timing of this decision ideal for our company," said Asif Naseem, President and COO of GoAhead Software. "We look forward to contributing our breadth of experience in high availability software to this vibrant community. GoAhead's acquisition of Emerson Network Power's Avantellis team, representing many of the original developers of OpenSAF, creates an unmatched level of capability at GoAhead and enables us to continue our tradition of world-class expertise in delivering standards-based software solutions."
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Hewlett-Packard
"We see customer demand growing significantly for open, standards-based solutions in the telecommunications industry," said Christine Martino, Vice President, Telecom Platforms, HP.
"Our recent efforts to bring the latest in blade server innovation to the telecom market demonstrate HP's leadership and commitment to carrier-grade Linux advancement, and we will continue to drive and support carrier-grade Linux and OpenSAF on HP platforms moving forward."
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MontaVista
"MontaVista has a long history of defining standards in the carrier grade Linux market and driving those standards into open source projects," said Dan Cauchy, vice president of marketing and business development at MontaVista Software, "We were the first to provide OpenSAF code in a commercial Linux product. We believe that OpenSAF is poised to become the industry standard for open source high-availability middleware solutions. We are very pleased to be joining the OpenSAF Foundation to help drive its adoption in the carrier market."
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Wind River
"Wind River is a strong supporter of the open source movement and we believe there is a clear trend in the industry to move open source software up the stack beyond the operating system. HA Middleware is a key building block that is now being addressed by the open source community, just like the operating system with Linux was 10 years ago," said Glenn Seiler, director of Networking Strategy and Solutions, Wind River. "The OpenSAF Foundation is a frontrunner in promoting next-generation open source HA solutions, and Wind River is delighted to join this movement."
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