Morfeo Open-Source Software Community

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Morfeo Open-Source Software Community is focused on improving Technical Transferences between companies, and on generating social networks for collaboration among them, being also an encouragement for small-sized companies providing certain resources for carying out this task.

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[edit] Morfeo Project Goals

The MORFEO community works towards the following goals:

  • Speed up the development of Service Oriented Architectures-related software standards, which are key for both systems integration and the evolution of the network as an ecosystem of proliferating services
  • Create business opportunities in the field and integrate solutions targeting enterprises and the Administration based on standard platforms and applications developed within the community
  • Improve the productivity and assure the quality of open-source software-related developments that can be integrated with the standard software development infrastructure for projects of this type (Gforge)
  • Act as a catalyst for R&D&I projects in the software field that naturally integrate a range of scientific and technological agents, helping to boost R&D&I activities and the development of a strong industrial fabric in countries where the consortium members operate.

The community will provide a knowledge base around a model associated with open-source software and will provide enterprises with counselling on open-source software-related issues. To do this, the community will also look at the development of:

  • An information base addressing general open-source software issues, entering into a non-exclusive debate with respect to conventional commercial software.
  • Guides containing advice for enterprises about the implications of using open-source software, of the steps that should take in the process of releasing software and what potential there is for defining business models around open-source software.

[edit] Colaborating Members

The MORFEO community provides an open framework for collaboration among enterprises (major corporations and SMEs), universities, research centres and public administrations that believe in (or want to experience) the potential of open-source software with a view to achieving the above-mentioned goals. Since it was set up, the community has hit the headlines and has the unqualified backing of a number of public administrations in Spain, namely, the regional governments of Andalusia, Aragon, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Catalonia and Valencia.

The community will feed off its members' contribution, but Telefónica I+D is the community's “engine”, releasing proprietary software components and injecting resources into the community.

[edit] Main Projects

Morfeo Open-Source Software Community embraces, including others, the following projects:

  • MyMobileWeb. The Mobility Channel is a vertical components platform for developing mobile solutions. It is a modular product, based on standards, that offers a comprehensive solution to the problem of mobility. It is composed of a number of modules that cover the basic requirements to be met by a comprehensive and integrated mobility solution, concealing the complexity of managing multiple devices from applications.
  • FAST (Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools). The main objective of the project is to create a new a visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of complex front-end gadgets, involving execution of relatively complex business processes that rely on back-end Semantic Web Services
  • SMARTFlow. Smartflow, a workflow platform, which aim is to define a platform that speeds up certain electronic processes in Public Administrations, such as administrative files and final user complaints in case of companies.
  • Corba Components. One of the most prominent technologies in the field of distributed computing is CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). Telefónica I+D has developed a range of professional distributed solutions for the Telefónica Group targeting different problems in the world of ICT, all of which have features that can be classed under “high-criticality environments" and “multiplatform" concepts.
  • SOA Components. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) defines a software architecture model that is vastly popular for applications integration environments, especially in B2B environments at Internet level and EAI environments at Intranet level.

[edit] Other projects

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