Open Source: the Right Model for
Infrastructure Software
Proprietary
Models
Business
Competition solution
Government
Health Care
Industry
Finance
Utilities
Retail
Etc.
Cooperation Infrastructure
Open Source
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A global community working together to
develop open source middleware* and to
foster a vibrant business ecosystem
*Middleware at large, including tools for the development, deployment and management of distributed applications

In 2007, ObjecWeb and OrientWare merge to form OW2
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Consortium Structure Overview
Community Governance
Code
Base
Activities Membership
Fees
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OW2 Industry-Grade Projects
2007 top downloads
•lomboz
•funambol
•asm
2,456,900 donwloads
•exoplatform
•jonas
•xwiki
•ops
•spagobi
•jotm
•acceleo JOTM
•bonita
•javaservice
•shark
•salomé-tmf javaservice
•joram
•petals
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A Truly Global Community
 Strategic Members
1. Alcatel Lucent
2. Beihang U.
3. Bull SAS
4. CVIC SE
5. DOCSC
6. Engineering
7. France Telecom
8. INRIA
9. ISCAS
10. NUDT
11. Peking U.
12. Red Hat
13. SERPRO 14 Strategic Members, 45 Corporate Members
14. Thales 900 Individual Members
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The OW2 Community Cooperates
Within three Activities
Projects
 Technology Innovation
Initiatives
 Business Leverage
Local Chapters
 Global Governance
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A Business Ecosystem Platform
Technical Services Software Vendors
 Forge Academia
 Mailing lists, Systems Integrators
Companies
Wiki, etc. Government
Individuals
Community Services
 Governance framework Producers Users
 Activities Re-use Use / Integrate
Contribute Feed-back
Marketing Services
 Project promotions
 Awareness
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China Local Chapter
 Current Participants  Activities
 BUAA
 CVIC-SE  Local events
 DOCSC  Collateral localization
 GMRC
 HUIHOO  TruSTIE
 ISCAS
 NUDT  Membership development
 PKU
 David Li  OW2 Chinese Website
 Cooperation with open
source organizations
 OSS programming
contest
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Join the OW2 Business Ecosystem
www.ow2.org
For more informations
Please contact
Cedric Thomas (CEO)
cedric thomas @ ow2 org
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OW2 Activities
 Projects
 Technology Innovation
 Initiatives
 Business Leverage
 Local Chapters
 Global Governance
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The OW2
Governance Model
Directors Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Ecosystem
Councilors Technology
Councils
Operations
Officers Management
Management Office Office (MO)
Project Management Team
Managers Initiative Management Team
Activities Management Teams
Local Chapter Management Team
Openness, Fairness, Trust, Transparency, Independence
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Membership Categories
•€30,000
Strategic Members •3-year commitment
•Plus one full-time employee
•LORGs: €6,000
•SMORGs: €3,000
Corporate Members •Micros: €1,000
•Academia: €3,000
•Research Labs: €1,000
•1-year commitment
Individual Members •No-Charge
More details at: http://joining.ow2.org/membershipCategories.html
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