Product category: Networking Hardware
News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 01 February 2008
Service commitment boosts OpenSAF
The embedded computing business of Emerson Network Power will offer a full range of professional services to augment the OpenSAF integration experience.
Emerson Network Power has pledged to support the OpenSAF Foundation and has confirmed its commitment to provide OpenSAF on all of its future AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA Avantellis platforms In order to broaden the reach and success of the OpenSAF Foundation - which is dedicated to the development of a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) specifications - the embedded computing business of Emerson Network Power will offer a full range of professional services to augment the OpenSAF integration experience
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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To ease platform and application integration, customers will have access to Emerson Network Power's embedded computing design engineering services as well as development consulting and development support services.
This extended support will supplement their own design staffs with experienced engineers who can provide assistance with software development, programming and debugging.
Additionally, Emerson Network Power will offer a full range of training, support and maintenance services to the broad OpenSAF community and will provide adopters and application developers with access to its technical support resources.
"As a founding member of the OpenSAF Foundation, the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power will continue to actively contribute to the Open Source project, which is evident in our commitment to provide OpenSAF on all of our future ATCA and MicroTCA Avantellis platforms", said Jorge Magalhaes, Vice President of Marketing for the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power.
"This pledge will introduce OpenSAF benefits to a large, rapidly growing customer base, which in turn will help to improve time to market, as well as reduce hardware dependency and increase R and D efficiency for a significantly increased number of OpenSAF users".
The open source project was initially released in mid 2007 and has been under development by an informal group of supporters of the OpenSAF initiative.
A nonprofit organisation, the OpenSAF Foundation was established 22nd January, 2008 by communications and enterprise computing companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products.
Concurrently, the code base was released under the LGPL v2.1 licence.
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