The Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) represents over 200 member companies in the open source industry. To date, the work of the Open Source Business Alliance has focussed strongly on cooperation with public administration and political decision-makers in order to promote the digital sovereignty of public administration and business through the use of open source software. The organisation’s focus is also increasingly expanding to include direct cooperation with business and industry. A task force has been set up specifically for this purpose. This task force will be in regular dialogue with the Open Logistics Foundation in the future.
As a non-profit and commonbenefit organisation, the Open Logistics Foundation is dedicated to the development of publicly available open source solutions at commodity level. The organisation and its members work together to launch non-competitive open source projects for logistics.
Promoting the visibility of open source in business and industry
The common goal of the two organisations is to promote the exchange of information on digital sov-ereignty and open source – also in intensive dialogue with other business and industry associations. “Topics such as the Cyber Resilience Act, open source purchasing and the tax assessment of open source and corporate contributions are always relevant to and have an impact on our activities and those of our members. By working together, we can benefit from the expertise, networking and political work of the Open Source Business Alliance”, explains Andreas Nettsträter, CEO of the Open Logistics Foundation. “The cooperation also enables us to understand what motivates industrial com-panies to use open source and what reservations they may have. The Open Source Business Alliance offers us important insights here.”
“Together with the Open Logistics Foundation, we can promote the increased use of open source in business and industry and make the success of open source visible in these areas. We see great synergy potential here and a win-win situation for the topic of open source”, emphasises Lothar Becker, Board Member of the Open Source Business Alliance.
