Gaël Blondelle

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. It depends on the liberties delivered by open source licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community. One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

Petals Link (former EBM Websourcing) is an independent IT startup funded 2004 in Toulouse, France. Established by Java architects with strong expertise in integration and Web Services, Petals Link provides solutions based on Internet technologies for information systems. Petals Link is targeting information systems collaboration market. Enterprise agility and collaboration requirements enforce information system managers to set up flexible and interoperable architecture. Thanks to Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture approaches, Petals Link stays at the cutting edge of innovation in order to allow networked organisations to improve competitivity and to facilitate digital ecosystems implementation. Since inception, Petals Link set Open Source as a key strategic driver and joined the OW2 consortium: the European Open-Source middleware specialist. As an open-source editor for solution dedicated to the alignment of enterprise information system with business strategy, the core business of Petals Link deals with design and implementation of open-source solutions dedicated to information exchange between information system’s services and B2B. With Petals ESB project, EBM WebSourcing is the European leader for open-source service infrastructure ESB in order to implement Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Petals ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus integration solution based on Java ™ Business Integration (JBI) standard (http://petals.ow2.org ).