Eclipse Foundation
An open source operating system as an alternative
The Eclipse Foundation has now announced the launch of the Oniro project. Oniro is intended to be a transparent, vendor-neutral and independent alternative to established IoT and edge operating systems.
To accomplish this goal and ensure that Oniro has a global reach, the Eclipse Foundation and its members will deliver a compatible, independent implementation of OpenHarmony, an open source operating system specified and hosted by the OpenAtom Foundation.
"Oniro is open source in its purest form," says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "It's a unique opportunity to develop and host a next-generation operating system to support the future of mobile, IoT, machine economy, edge and many other markets."
Oniro is to become a next-generation operating system, says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
© Eclipse FoundationBy establishing the Oniro top-level project, the Eclipse Foundation aims to strengthen the global technology ecosystem while bringing a vendor-neutral open source operating system to the global market. To facilitate the management of the Oniro device ecosystem, the Eclipse Foundation is also establishing a new working group. The Eclipse Foundation's working group structure provides the vendor neutrality and legal framework that enables transparent and equal collaboration between organizations.
"We are very proud to host a major European open source project with global participation that aims to develop an independent operating system," says Gaël Blondelle, Vice President of European Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation. "To achieve this, we would like to invite developers and companies from Europe and the rest of the world to join our working group at the Eclipse Foundation and bring this groundbreaking project to life together."
The Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation provides a mature, scalable and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation for a global community of individuals and organizations. The Foundation hosts the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 400 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, distributed ledger technologies, open processor designs and many others. The Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit organization supported by more than 330 members.
The OpenAtom Foundation
The OpenAtom Foundation is dedicated to promoting the common good for the global open source community. OpenAtom was officially established in Beijing in June 2020 and is a joint initiative of companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Inspur, Qihoo, Tencent and China Merchants Bank. OpenAtom strives to create an open framework for industry and information technology, develop international open source communities, improve the efficiency of industrial cooperation, and empower all industries by providing neutral intellectual property management, open source strategy and compliance consulting, open source project operation and marketing services, education and training, etc. related to open source software, hardware, chips and content.
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