Ow2 Consortium

founded in january 2007 as a result of the merger of objectweb and orientware communities, ow2 is an independent industry consortium dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. building on the legacy of objectweb and orientware, ow2 federates more than one hundred organizations and 6000 it professionals in europe, asia and the americas. ow2 hosts over one hundred technology projects, including acceleo, asm, bonita, exo platorm, funambol, jonas, lomboz, orbeon forms, petals, spagobi, talend and xwiki. several of these projects are combined into market-driven initiatives, such as the esb/soa initiative, the business intelligence initiative and the e-government initiative, which facilitate their implementations into business solutions by systems integrators, oems and end-users. a typical global open-source organization, ow2 aims to bring together grassroots communities across a