Open Solutions Alliance

One of the announcements to come out of last weeks Open Solutions Summit in New York was the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). They say:
‘we are a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of
comprehensive open source business solutions’. Wow it sounds great, but where is the business model here?
They also say: ‘OSA will work with open source ISVs, systems integrators, and the
broader open source community to improve interoperability among software
products, resulting in integrated and rapidly deployable solutions for
business users.’

Founding members of the OSA include Adaptive Planning, Centric CRM,
CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo,
SourceForge.net,

SpikeSource and Talend. SpikeSource are sponsoring the
next minibar session on March 2nd so it will be interesting to hear from
them how OSA will help increase the adoption of OSS.