Wind River and Open Source

Wind River's Open Source Leadership

Eclipse
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Wind River is a leader in the Eclipse development community and standards body, guiding the top-level Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project and contributed more than 300,000 lines of code back to Eclipse to improve device software development capabilities in Eclipse. Wind River also leads the Device Debugging and Target Management subprojects that are an integral part of DSDP.

LiMo Foundation
LiMo Foundation is advancing the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of a globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices and cultivating an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. Wind River is a core member of LiMo and participates on the executive committee, the architectural council, and the requirements council with the other founders and core members.

Moblin.org
Moblin.org is an open source community for sharing software technologies, ideas, projects, code, and applications to create an untethered computing experience across mobile Internet devices (MIDs), netbooks, and embedded devices. The computing hardware is based on Intel Atom processor technology, which requires software optimized for low power, low footprint, high performance, wireless, and graphics to deliver a full Internet experience. Wind River has made available an open source automotive Linux specification and code to the open source community via a new in-vehicle infotainment segment within Moblin.org. Expanding our involvement with Moblin, Wind River is committed to providing a full-featured, open source Moblin-based stack optimized for MIDs in 2009.

OpenSAF
OpenSAF is an open source project established to develop a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum™) specifications. The OpenSAF Foundation was established by leading Communications and Enterprise Computing Companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products. Wind River sits in the OpenSAF Foundation's Board of Directors to assist in driving the adoption of an high availability middleware implementation across the telecommunications and networking industries. Also, Wind River supports developers' efforts to accelerate and complete the OpenSAF project.

Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC)
TIPC is designed for use in clustered computer environments, allowing designers to create applications that can communicate quickly and reliably with other applications regardless of their location within the cluster. Wind River has contributed TIPC support to open source community and is actively involved in TIPC Working Group that oversees the evolution of TIPC and supports its open source implementations.

Wind River's Open Source People

Wind River's Open Source Consortia Involvement

AUTOSAR
Jointly developed by vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and tool developers, AUTOSAR establishes an open standard for automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture, particularly for under-the-hood applications, and will serve as a basic infrastructure for management of functions in standard software modules and future automotive applications.

Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF)
CELF focuses on the establishment and promotion of Linux-based digital consumer electronic products. CELF's main activities include defining requirements for a variety of extensions in Linux-based consumer electronics products, as well as collaborating and reaching consensus with open source projects and the Linux community, thereby promoting the proliferation of Linux-based digital electronics.

Khronos Group
Khronos Group is creating open standards such as OpenGL® ES and OpenSL® ES to enable the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media in devices such as mobile handsets.

OPC Foundation
The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices.

Open Handset Alliance
The Open Handset Alliance will create a complete, open, and freely available next-generation mobile platform called Android. Android will dramatically simplify the development and distribution of mobile applications—it is a Linux-based mobile platform that comes out of the box, ready for commercialization. As a Linux commercialization partner, Wind River already has substantial Android expertise based on the optimization and integration work completed with the earliest Android designs. This unique knowledge, coupled with our deep understanding and experience in bringing Linux-based devices to market, creates a powerful combination for device manufacturers.

SCOPE Alliance
Dedicated to accelerating the deployment of carrier-grade platforms for service provider applications; enabling and promoting the availability of open carrier-grade platforms based on COTS hardware/software and open-source building blocks; and promoting interoperability to better serve service providers and consumers.

The Linux Foundation (formerly OSDL)
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the LF sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms.

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