Motorola, Inc. the renowned frontrunner in wireless and broadband communications today announced here of its intention to form an industry-wide conglomerate in the anticipation that it will take for granted stewardship for the OpenSAF ™ project that the company announced in the month of the last February. The company has also come out with a definite proclamation in this regard that the first release of the open source code is wholly related to the project. In addition, the said consortium will manage besides any future progress of the OpenSAF code base and the renowned pioneer companies Ericsson, as well as HP and Nokia Siemens Networks have expressed their earnestness and advocacy for this initiative.

Motorola is renowned throughout the world for its innovative techniques and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Being inspired by the vision of Seamless Mobility, the name of Motorola has become synonymous to get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment. The company excels in this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences, and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services.

It has been learnt from the Company's sources, that this project being an open source one will institute a broadly adopted high accessibility operating environment that can be leveraged by the an assortment of computing technology companies, network equipment providers or NEPs in conjunction with other industries that are in steady requirement of elevated ease of use. What's more the Independent Software Vendors or ISVs will be competent to use OpenSAF as a proficient yardstick for the mere creation of highly available appliances. It is to be noted in this respect that the OpenSAF do consist of an accomplishment of the Service Availability™ Forum Application Interface Specification or AIS.

While speaking to John Fryer, the leader of the OpenSAF project on behalf of Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing business, he said,   "We are very pleased to announce our intent to form an industry-wide consortium that will manage the open source project and also to make this initial OpenSAF code base available. This is an important next step following our original announcement of the project in February. We are also pleased with the decisions of a broad segment of industry leaders such as Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and HP to provide initial support for the OpenSAF project."