OSGi Alliance Names IBM as a Sponsor of Its 2004 World Congress; Platinum-Level Support Announced for October Event in Barcelona, Spain.SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
The OSGi Alliance 2004 World Congress will draw the world's top experts on commercially available and developing OSGi implementations, offering focused tracks for the mobile, automotive and home markets as promised by its theme, "Convergence: Going Mobile, Driving, and Staying Home with OSGi Solutions." The Congress will be held at the Hilton Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain on October 11-15, 2004, and on-line registration is currently open at www.osgiworldcongress.com. "As devices grow in computing power, handheld computers, PDAs, consumer appliances, and even automobiles start performing functions that used to be limited to PCs and laptops. This means that standards and interoperability are more crucial than ever," said Craig Hayman, Vice President Development, IBM Pervasive Computing Refers to the use of computers in everyday life, including PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. It also refers to computers contained in commonplace objects such as cars and appliances and implies that people are unaware of their presence. Division. "IBM has been involved with the OSGi Alliance from the start, driving the various releases of the specification and working with the industry to advance the OSGi Alliance and its mission." This is the third year of Platinum Sponsorship for IBM, and highlights the strategic significance that IBM places on the OSGi Alliance to drive convergence of applications and services in the mobile, automotive and digital home markets. The annual World Congress is an open-to-the-public conference featuring pre- and post-event workshops, exhibitions, keynote presentations and breakout seminars targeted at experts and novices alike. Agenda sessions will illustrate the benefits of the OSGi Service Platform for end-users, network operators, and manufacturers and focus on how to easily deploy, provision, maintain, and manage applications and services to wired and wireless networked devices. "We're very pleased to have such a prominent company as IBM as a major sponsor," said Dr. John Barr For other persons named John Barr, see . John Barr (March 4 1843 – November 19 1909) was an Ontario-based Canadian physician and political figure. He represented Dufferin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1879, from 1890 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1904 and , President of the OSGi Alliance. "The acceptance of the OSGi Service Platform has exploded over the last year, with framework developers, device manufacturers, and service providers releasing OSGi enabled products and services in many markets." Building on last year's highly successful Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany, the OSGi Alliance recently formed a Mobile Expert Group (MEG), to define the requirements and specifications to tailor and extend the OSGi Service Platform for mobile devices. The 2004 World Congress will provide an inside look at the work being performed within the OSGi Alliance by its members to create device middleware solutions for the mobile industry. The event is being produced for the OSGi Alliance by Global Inventures. For registration information go to www.osgiworldcongress.com. About IBM IBM (www.ibm.com) is the world's leading on demand business company offering a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that help businesses take advantage of emerging innovation. IBM provides a robust infrastructure for your on demand environment based on open industry standards like those of the OSGi Alliance. Integration mandates open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . With billions of smart devices interacting, the problems of integration cannot be solved with an exclusively proprietary approach. The OSGi Service Platform is a vital link in the value chain of open industry standards that make possible new worlds of on demand business solutions based on intelligent, networked devices in businesses, industry, vehicles, the home, and even mobile environments like mobile phones. With the IBM Service Management Framework For other uses, see SMF (disambiguation). The Service Management Framework (SMF) is a software product by IBM which implements the OSGi Service Platform. It is available as a component of other IBM products, including IBM Lotus Expeditor, a platform enabling OSGi (TM), the OSGi Framework component of IBM Workplace IBM Workplace was a brand of collaborative software applications from IBM's Lotus Software division. It was intended to be the next generation of collaboration software that would work with IBM's Java EE-based WebSphere Portal server software. Client Technology, Micro Edition; WebSphere Everyplace eve·ry·place adv. Informal Everywhere. Usage Note: The forms everyplace (or every place), anyplace (or any place), someplace (or some place), and no place Micro Environment, a Java Virtual Machine A Java interpreter. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is software that converts the Java intermediate language (bytecode) into machine language and executes it. The original JVM came from the JavaSoft division of Sun. (JVM See Java Virtual Machine. JVM - Java Virtual Machine ) environment; Eclipse and WebSphere Studio Device Developer development tools; DB2(R) Everyplace, and Cloudscape cloud·scape n. 1. A work of art representing a view of clouds: an Impressionist painting that is a vast cloudscape of buoyant, floating forms. 2. (TM) databases; MQSeries(R) Everyplace message queuing systems; combined with WebSphere and Lotus(R) server software; and consulting services from the world's largest IT services organization -- IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. -- IBM provides a complete range of OSGi based business solutions. About the OSGi Alliance The OSGi Alliance is an open forum. Its mission is to specify, create, advance, and promote an open service platform for the delivery and management of multiple applications and services to all types of networked devices in home, vehicle, mobile, and other environments. The OSGi Alliance serves as the focal point focal point n. See focus. for a collaborative ecosystem of service provider, technology, industrial, consumer and automotive electronics communities. As an independent non-profit corporation, the OSGi Alliance also provides for the fair and uniform creation and distribution of relevant intellectual property -- including specifications, reference implementations, and test suites -- to all its members. The OSGi Service Platform is an extensible integration platform used to remotely and dynamically deploy, provision, maintain, and manage applications and services to devices in networked environments, such as homes, vehicles, mobile handhelds, and industrial settings. Membership is open to any interested party, including Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , network operators, original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, end users, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. The consortium's Web site address is http://www.osgi.org. About Global Inventures, Inc. (event producer) Global Inventures creates and operates collaborative communities in the technology market. Our experts work with community founders and members to incubate incubate /in·cu·bate/ (in´ku-bat) 1. to subject to or to undergo incubation. 2. material that has undergone incubation. in·cu·bate v. 1. , structure, and operate these collaborative communities so that they can successfully create ecosystems, drive technology innovation, and educate buyers. Since its inception Global Inventures has launched 20 collaborative communities, managed the creation of more than 20 collaborative industry specifications, created and managed seven compliance/certification programs, and helped develop markets with more than $10 billion in addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be value. The firm uniquely blends people, processes, and technology to help collaborative communities move from blueprints to market acceptance. Global Inventures successfully produced the 2003 OSGi Alliance World Congress, and its event production staff provides end-to-end event planning Event planning is the process of planning a festival, ceremony, competition, party, or convention. Event planning includes budgeting, establishing date and alternate date (rain date), selecting and reserving the event site, acquiring permits, and coordinating transportation and implementation for conferences, expos, member meetings and outreach seminars. Global Inventures -- Accelerating Results Through Collaboration (www.inventures.com). All company, brand, and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks that are the sole property of their respective owners. |
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