Morfeo Open-Source Software Community
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Morfeo Project Goals
The MORFEO community works towards the following goals:- Speed up the development of Service Oriented ArchitecturesService-oriented architectureIn software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
-related software standards, which are key for both systems integrationSystem integrationIn engineering, system integration is the bringing together of the component subsystems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system...
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 softwareOpen-source softwareOpen-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
-related developments that can be integrated with the standard software development infrastructure for projects of this type (GforgeGForgeGForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge, called Savane...
) - 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
Open-source software
Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
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.
Collaborating 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 AndalusiaAndalusia
Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada and...
, Aragon
Aragon
Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...
, Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities...
, Extremadura
Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous community of western Spain whose capital city is Mérida. Its component provinces are Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by Portugal to the west...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
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.
Main Projects
Morfeo Open-Source Software Community embraces, including others, the following projects:- MyMobileWebMyMobileWebMyMobileWeb is an open source product that simplifies the development of adaptive mobile web applications and portals, providing an advanced content & application adaptation environment. It is based on open-standards, Java and Java EE technology.-Description:...
. 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 gadgetsGadgetA gadget is a small technological object that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention...
, involving execution of relatively complex business processes that rely on back-end Semantic Web ServicesSemantic Web ServicesSemantic Web Services, like conventional web services, are the server end of a client–server system for machine-to-machine interaction via the World Wide Web... - SMARTFlow. Smartflow, a workflowWorkflowA workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...
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 ComponentsÇorbaChorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...
. 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 ComponentsService-oriented architectureIn software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) defines a software architecture model that is vastly popular for applications integration environments, especially in B2BBusiness-to-businessBusiness-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...
environments at Internet level and EAIEnterprise application integrationEnterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...
environments at Intranet level.
Other projects
- B2Booking
- EasyConf
- Zentyal
- MyMobileSearch
- UptaZone