Welcome to the Morfeo Open-Source Software Community
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.
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, Estremadura, 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.