“The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) today announced
that its membership grew by 45 percent in the first quarter of
2000, with 19 companies joining the organization. OSGi
(http://www.osgi.org) is now comprised of 58 leading technology
companies working to define and promote open standards for the
delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local
networks and devices. Member companies plan to gather for the OSGi
annual member meeting, May 1-3 in San Diego, to finalize the
initial release of the OSGi technical specification.”
“The OSGi specification, which complements virtually
all-residential networking standards, defines an open standard that
enables multiple software services to be loaded and run on a
services gateway such as a set top box, cable modem, DSL modem, PC
or dedicated residential gateway. Initially based on Java
technology, the OSGi specification enables a new business model for
the home networking market by allowing multiple value-added
services to share the cost of a single services gateway and gives
application service providers, network operators, and device and
appliance manufacturers both application and platform
independence.”
“Infomatec perceives OSGi as an excellent communications
platform and will be playing an active role in the development of
OSGi specifications and their implementation,” said Franz
Hintermayr, CTO of Infomatec Internet Appliance Systems (IAS) GmbH,
a subsidiary of Infomatec AG. “We hope to contribute through our
extensive experience in the embedded Linux operating systems
area.”