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April 21, 2008
OSA Announces Results of Board of Director Elections
By David Sims TMCnet Contributing Editor
The Open Solutions Alliance, a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open products, has held its first annual board of director elections.
The OSA, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in February, filled three vacant board positions by electing Deb Woods, vice president of product marketing at Ingres; Josep Mitjà, chief operating officer at Openbravo; and Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager for the Open Source Business at Unisys (News - Alert).
They join existing board members Michael Harvey, executive vice president and CMO at Concursive, and Dominic Sartorio, OSA president and senior director of product management at SpikeSource.
Sartorio said the OSA "will continue to capitalize on its strength of being a diverse, multilateral organization with a shared goal of better interoperability of open-source point products and further adoption of open source in the enterprise."
The board's initial focus will be setting marketing priorities for the organization, specifically around new-member recruitment and best practices through the OSA's flagship project, the Common Customer View (CCV), which works across back-office and front-office applications to show customer interactions.
Prior to her time at Ingres Woods was vice president of product management at Red Hat (News - Alert).
Mitjà was re-elected to the board for a second term and was active last year in establishing a European chapter of the OSA. Gold is a 20-year veteran at Unisys where he leads the open source business.
This February the Open Solutions Alliance marked its one-year anniversary with three new members.
"The commercial open-source industry is no longer in an early-adopter phase," said Dominic Sartorio, OSA president and senior director of product management at SpikeSource, an open-source services company. "Now that we've entered the mainstream phase of adoption, it's even more important that open products have the fit, form and function that an enterprise organization expects."
The CCV was built and tested by OSA members including Adaptive Planning, Concursive, Ingres, JasperSoft (News - Alert), Openbravo, SpikeSource, Talend and Unisys, and is currently available for purchase through Unisys.
Going forward, alliance officials say, the CCV will continue to expand. Future versions will include participation from more members, will introduce loosely coupled integration best practices including SOA and REST, and will serve as a reference implementation of those best practices.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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communications, unified communications, and contact center news, please click here.
The OSA, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in February, filled three vacant board positions by electing Deb Woods, vice president of product marketing at Ingres; Josep Mitjà, chief operating officer at Openbravo; and Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager for the Open Source Business at Unisys (News - Alert).
They join existing board members Michael Harvey, executive vice president and CMO at Concursive, and Dominic Sartorio, OSA president and senior director of product management at SpikeSource.
Sartorio said the OSA "will continue to capitalize on its strength of being a diverse, multilateral organization with a shared goal of better interoperability of open-source point products and further adoption of open source in the enterprise."
The board's initial focus will be setting marketing priorities for the organization, specifically around new-member recruitment and best practices through the OSA's flagship project, the Common Customer View (CCV), which works across back-office and front-office applications to show customer interactions.
Prior to her time at Ingres Woods was vice president of product management at Red Hat (News - Alert).
Mitjà was re-elected to the board for a second term and was active last year in establishing a European chapter of the OSA. Gold is a 20-year veteran at Unisys where he leads the open source business.
This February the Open Solutions Alliance marked its one-year anniversary with three new members.
"The commercial open-source industry is no longer in an early-adopter phase," said Dominic Sartorio, OSA president and senior director of product management at SpikeSource, an open-source services company. "Now that we've entered the mainstream phase of adoption, it's even more important that open products have the fit, form and function that an enterprise organization expects."
The CCV was built and tested by OSA members including Adaptive Planning, Concursive, Ingres, JasperSoft (News - Alert), Openbravo, SpikeSource, Talend and Unisys, and is currently available for purchase through Unisys.
Going forward, alliance officials say, the CCV will continue to expand. Future versions will include participation from more members, will introduce loosely coupled integration best practices including SOA and REST, and will serve as a reference implementation of those best practices.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
For all the latest enterprise IP
communications, unified communications, and contact center news, please click here.
