UShareSoft has built close relationships with the OW2 Community since 3 years now. The UShareSoft team has joined the Open Source Cloudware Initiative in September 2010 and the company is Corporate Member since January 2011.
UShareSoft cooperation has started with several OSCi members to build a complete cloud stack for the domain 3 BI4Cloud project. The first step has been achieved (appliances for SpagoBI, Japersoft, Talend are ready today). Since then UShareSoft have been active with France Telecom and other OW2 partners to manage to succees a 10 Millions FSN co-founded R&D project CloudForce now renamed OpencloudWare, where OW2 and few OW2 members are playing a master role.

UShareSoft believes that openness and interoperability in the cloud is critical to address lock-in, cloud security, data location, software management and governance, standard publishing and self service. Moving forward UShareSoft is contributing to OpencloudWare software build projects for build intereoperability.

UShareSoft is launching Cloud Dynamic App Stores for next generation software delivery around the globe, moving forward UShareSoft is willing to continue working with OW2 members on cloud software delivery and more specifically on the next generation App Store definition that could make sense for OW2.

Alban has 25 years work experience, including Engineering, Marketing and Product Management executive with P&L responsibilities and general management experience. Successful track record on leading edge server software product lines design, innovation, and market introduction, including handful of market leading portfolio or technologies such as the worlds leading LDAP solution, Suns Directory Server Enterprise Edition (Sun DSEE), the open source project OpenDS or the Sun Java DMK Platform, including Java Management Extensions JMX framework.

Prior to UShareSoft CEO, Alban has been with Sun Microsystems for more than 18 years, including several years based at Suns Menlo Park campus in California. Last position at Sun Microsystems, Alban was leading Sun DSEE portfolio and P&L as well as managing Sun France Grenoble R&D Engineering Center GEC.

UShareSoft

UShareSoft simplifies the way IT professionals deliver software to the Cloud Computing. We make it easy for individual developers, system administrators and professionals to automate the creation and deployment of software templates and images for all the major virtualization and cloud computing formats including Vitual Box, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, Amazon, IBM CloudBurst, Eucalyptus, Cloud.com and others environments. UForge Server Templates Factory provides the best image Factory and App Store to assemble self-deployable distributed appliances for on-demand application delivery.

Since 2009, CASSIDIAN is an OW2 member, it is time to build stronger links with OW2 by providing a deeper collaboration with OW2 Consortium. CASSIDIAN would like to share its experience and knowledge about large organizations and governments needs to make OW2 gain access to other markets. CASSIDIAN is interested in supporting OW2 cloud initiatives and will act as a complementary member of OW2.

WebLab project represents the main CASSIDIAN participation to OW2, our team is active and benefits from our collaboration is visible in our day to day work. WebLab project is tightly connected with other OW2 projects like Petals or Orchestra. We plan to build further connections with OW2 other projects, thus our participation to OW2 community and board is a high priority. For CASSIDIAN, being part of the OW2 board is a way to show that we are ready to achieve a new step in this collaboration.

Arnaud Saval is a research engineer in CASSIDIAN since 2007 leading the OW2 WebLab project with Patrick Giroux and Stephan Brunnessaux. He received his PhD in computer science from the Caen University in 2011. Since 2011, he also works as a professor at the Rouen University teaching Distributed Architectures courses.

Every year, with the WebLab team, he organizes a workshop on Services and Open Sources where researchers discuss bottlenecks and propose new ideas on numerous theme like distributes architectures and linked open data uses. He takes part in several ANR and European projects based on WebLab.

CASSIDIAN SAS

CASSIDIAN is the defense and security division of the EADS group. It provides global security solutions, lead system integration and aerial, land, naval and joint systems. Cassidian has more than 25 000 employees in several offices located across Europe, USA, India, Mexico and the Middle east.

Our customers across the globe are seeking access to the latest available technologies to meet their challenges and ultimately secure future successes. We provide sustainable system solutions and value-added services, permanently integrating innovation and excellence into our offerings.

Cedric represented Talend company during the inception of OW2 and was Board member since OW2 was created.

Talend heavily involved in the international development of Open Source, has got offices in multiple countries (France, UK, Germany, USA, China, Japan...), strategic member of Eclipse, actively develop CXF/Karaf/Camel/ServiceMix Apache projects (thanks PMC Chairs, PMCs and main committers for each of this projects), was cofounder of OSA (OSA merged with OW2 in Oct 2009)...

Most notably Talend has successfully launched Chinese operations and Cedric works with OW2 China Local Chapter (Beijing Corporate Networking meeting, OW2 Programming Context...)

Already involved in the Business Intelligence Initiative of OW2, Cedric lead more recently the BI4Cloud domain3 of OSCi. Talend is working closely with other OW2 members including UshareSoft, BonitaSoft, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica or Bull.

For example, a strong integration between Talend & Bonita Open Studio or Talend & SpagoBI runs well.

Cedric Carbone is Talend's Chief Technical Officer. He joined Talend since his inception (2006), having previously managed the Java practice of Neurones. He currently manages a 140 people technical team in different locations (mainly in China, Germany, France, USA and Ireland).
Cedric is also Board Member of the Eclipse foundation. Cedric has also lectured at several universities on technical topics such as XML or Web Services.

Talend

Talend is the recognized market leader in open source data management & application integration. After three years of intense research and development investment, and with solid financial backing from leading investment firms, Talend revolutionized the world of data integration when it released the first version of Talend Open Studio in 2006.

Talends data management solutions portfolio now includes data integration (operational data integration and ETL for Business Intelligence), data quality, and master data management (MDM). Through the acquisition of Sopera in 2010, Talend became also a key player in application integration (SOA and ESB markets).

Unlike the small and quickly consolidating number of traditional vendors offering proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend offers a completely new vision. The company shatters the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of all organizations. Talend makes middleware solutions available to organizations of all sizes, for all their integration needs.

For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com and Talend community at www.talendforge.org.

In 2005 I joined ObjectWeb, then OW2. Since the beginning, I have been Engineering Group representative at OW2 BoD, in which I have always played an active role, participating in almost all board meetings as well as in many OW2 events. I continuously involve Engineering Groups people into OW2 community, also through the various activities fostered by the consortium, such as: technology councils, OW2 BI Initiative, OW2 Open Source Cloudware initiative, OW2 events, on-line/in-person meetings, on-line discussions. I think that the active participation in a community is a key factor for its growth and success. Therefore, my participation in the board aims to stimulate OW2 growth in a pro-active and transparent way, in order to keep the community open and give an answer to many demands in the open source domain, coming from vendors, integrators, users, researchers and individuals. OW2 Consortium needs a real committed members participation and I will personally continue to put my own effort and stimulate OW2 community through the next Board.

Gabriele Ruffatti, founder of the SpagoWorld initiative, is Architectures & Consulting Director within the Research & Innovation Division of Engineering Group. He has held senior management positions at Engineering Group in project and product management, in software process improvement & quality assurance and in the definition of innovative architectural solutions. He is Engineering Group focal point for industrial open source activities. In 2004 he founded SpagoWorld initiative, currently including four mature OSS projects of OW2 Consortium code base (SpagoBI, Spago4Q, Spagic and Spago) and two Eclipse Foundation projects (eBAM, eBPM). He is currently member of SpagoWorld executive board and of OW2 Board of Directors; he is also active in the community of Eclipse Foundation and in the FLOSS Competence Center international network. He has contributed to some Italian and European IT research projects, focusing on open source. Committed to students and IT professionals education, he has lectured at Engineering Groups ICT Training School. He regularly gives seminars within bachelors and masters degrees in various universities. From 2006 to 2008 he was Open Source Software adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science degree, at the University of Padua, Italy. He currently cooperates with various research institutes, universities and students, through workshops, presentations, internships and degree thesis support.

Engineering Group

Engineering Group is an IT global player, Italys largest operator in the IT services market as an independent and private equity company, one of the ten leading ones in Europe. Its complete integrated offering covers the whole range of IT services, tailored to the business models of its clients in all markets. Services include technology and strategy consultancy as well as the design, outsourcing, development and deploy of projects and open source and proprietary solutions. With more than 6,500 specialists and 40 branch offices, the Group has a global production capacity in 52 countries, a well-established presence throughout Italy, in the EU-zone and in Latin America.

Engineering Group believes that open source software is a crucial element that allows enterprises to quickly achieve their business goals. The company provides the enterprises with its experience and knowledge in the selection, integration, validation of and support to the best open source solutions, including its own solutions and third parties ones. It offers the full benefits in terms of costs and efficiency, thanks to the convenient licensing schemes and to the high flexibility and robustness of its well-assessed solutions. Its open source approach is a rational engineering approach: analyzing pros and cons, making proper decisions, rather than ideological ones.

Engineering Group thinks that, when adequately used, open source software can help generate high returns in terms of investments and enhance the overall quality as well. Engineering Group is active in the open source field at the international level. In 2005, the company became a corporate member of the ObjectWeb Consortium. Since 2007, Engineering Group has been Co-founder and Corporate Member of the OW2 Consortium, whose Forge hosts SpagoWorld projects, guaranteeing independent support with long-term sustainability, provided by the global community. Besides contributing to several open source projects, Engineering Group is active in various national and international open source communities: in particular, it is Solutions Member of Eclipse Foundation as well as Foundation Partner of the Italian Open Source Competence Center. Last but not least, Engineering Group is OSGi Alliance Supporter.

SugarCRM is the world largest open source CRM software solution, with more than 1 million downloads and a community of over 30,000 developers and 1,000 projects worldwide. SugarCRM is a new member of OW2 and is looking to deepen it involvement to help advance the cause of open source awareness in the enterprise and help integrate us with the other great open source applications that are part of the OW2 group.

For me personally, I want to use my experience in the open source developer world with working with projects such as the PHP projects to help strengthen the OW2 and present new perspectives on open source and community.

John Mertic serves as the Community Manager for SugarCRM, having several years of experience with PHP web applications and open source communities. A frequent conference speaker and an avid writer, he has been published in php architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connection, and is the author of the book The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM: Better Business Applications and the book Building on SugarCRM: Creating Applications the Easy Way. He has also contributed to many open source projects, most notably the PHP project where is the creator and maintainer of the PHP Windows Installer.

Sugar CRM

SugarCRM is the world leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Over 7,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers and create custom business applications.

Leading publications such as CRM Magazine, InfoWorld and eWeek praise SugarCRM for its ease-of-use, flexibility and open design.

SugarCRM runs on the leading cloud computing platforms, including Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Sugar On-Demand and Private Clouds, offering customers unparalleled choice and control of their data and deployments.

OW2 provides open source technologies that are the core of many teaching units at University Joseph Fourier (UJF) such as the IM2AG departments (Computer Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics). We are interested in the co-development with the OW2 members of tutorials about open source software (e.g. http://ecom.ow2.org). This will promote OW2 software for teaching abroad since UJF is involved in many international teaching programs and will create a virtuous circle for educational material reuse.

OW2 is a solid platform providing software that interests many labs in applied mathematics and computer sciences but also potentially in other fields such as medecine, physics or biology at UJF. These other fields often require distributed computing technologies such as cloud computing, ambient systems and others middleware. This is an opportunity to build collaborative projects between academia and industry that involve various disciplines but also to participate and promote OW2 projects as technology provider.

OW2 is a partner for technology transfer between academia and industry through an international open source platform and consortium. UJF has a dynamic policy of research and technology transfer and supports collaborative research by initiating R&D partnerships with public laboratories and private companies. We believe that all OW2 partners and UJF will mutually benefit from such collaborations.

Noel De Palma received his PhD in computer science from the Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble) in 2001. During his PhD, he worked with SCALAGENT on the A3/OLAN component model. Then he took a postdoc position at Orange Labs where he participated to the OW2 JORM project. From 2002, he was associate professor at ENSIMAG and a member of the SARDES team (INRIA/LIG), where he conducted research on autonomic computing and worked on the JADE software transferred as a part of the OW2 JASMINe project. In 2007 he was a guest researcher at SICS/KTH (Sweden). Since 2010, he is a professor at the Joseph Fourier University and the leader of the futur ERODS research team (UJF/INP/CNRS LIG labs) which will focus on cloud computing. He has around 50 international publications and regularly participate in international conference committees or editorial boards. He leaded the SELFWARE project and participated in others EU and ANR projects. He is currently the leader of the CTRL-GREEN project and is involved in the OpenCloudware FSN project.

University Joseph Fourier

The University Joseph Fourier is a world-class leading scientific and medical university.

Located at the heart of the Alps, in outstanding scientific and natural surroundings, the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble is a leading University of Science, Technology and Health.

For more information, please visit : http://www.ujf-grenoble.fr/

ScalAgent DT has been created in 2001. It was a long time board member of the ObjectWeb Consortium. Since then we have continuously supported the ObjectWeb then OW2 Consortium as we believe that OW2 is a mandatory unity flag which arms the collection of collaborating OW2 projects going to the market. We have renewed this board engagement in 2011.

ScalAgent DT develops the JORAM MOM middleware. JORAM is a small and key part of an information system middleware, as most OW2 projects. We have collaborated and collaborate with many other OW2 projects, namely JOnAS, Petals ESB, Fractal, FraSCAti, Monolog, ODIS, as a provider, user, and/or contributor. We also participate to the OW2 Cloudware initiative with a cloud messaging platform contribution.

My goal as a board member is to promote the OW2 middleware brand, for the benefit of OW2 members.

I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique France, and hold a PhD from Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble.
I have been leading ScalAgent DT as CEO since it was created in 2001, and have been member of the OW2 board since 2011.
Before that I worked in an research-industry collaborative institute, on successive short term and focused projects, with the objective of transferring research results to the industrial partner products.

ScalAgent Distributed Technologies SA

ScalAgent Distributed Technologies is an independent software vendor, expert in asynchronous middleware. ScalAgent DT provides middleware products and expertise to help you in designing and prototyping your distributed applications.

For more information, please have a look at www.scalagent.com

My main objective is to work with OW2 members to promote wide adoptions of quality OSS in Governmental agencies and industries.

I also would like to improve the synergy between the different OW2 projects, and to involve German and other European and international companies and Governmental agencies in the projects development and to foster international co operation. Fraunhofer FOKUS is heavily involved in OS developments and supports Interop between OS and Closed Source

Yury Glikman is a project manager at Fraunhofer FOKUS and a co-head of the research group on Open Source Software. His technical and research background covers SOA, model driven software engineering, design, prototyping and testing of distributed systems.

Yuri Glickman was actively contributing and was leading technical activities in numerous international (TT-Medal, VISP, SWEB, QualiPSo, ALADDIN) and national research projects (KING, TWIN), and in research projects in collaboration with Japanese industry (Hitachi, NTT Data).

Yuri is the leader of the German QualiPSo Open Source Competence Centre and an active member of the QualiPSo community. He is working in the fields cloud computing, open data platforms, open source software and OSS collaborative development environment.

Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS

Fraunhofer is largest Research organization in Germany (14.000 employees) with 58 Institutes

Fraunhofer FOKUS is established 1988 in Berlin 250 employees from 26 nations, FOKUS stands for IP Telephony (Invention of SIP), Future Internet and Autonomic Communication, Web/Telco Convergence, I-Centric Communication, E-Government: one stop shopping, Interoperability, OPEN DATA, Cloud Computing, Testbeds / FOKUS-Labs: prove of concepts, Test Automation: Invention of TTCN-3, Open Source Provider: BerliOS second largest OS-Center, Qualipso Competence Center Berlin