Industry Leaders To Establish Consortium On OpenSAF Project

Motorola will lead the OpenSAF consortium it announced in February, supported by computing technology companies including Motorola, Ericsson, HP and Nokia Siemens Networks. OpenSAF is an open-source project designed to develop a highly-available operating environment based on SA Forum standards. The objective of the OpenSAF project is to accelerate broad adoption of an SA Forum-compliant operating environment, according to the OpenSAF website, opensaf.org Motorola also released the open source related to the project today. Adopting OpenSAF will allow for efficient use of in-house software engineering resources, according to a Motorola release. Additional tools will be provided to enable application development and deployment services as well, the company said.