The Linux Foundation Welcomes Open Source Experts in Security, Cloud and Mobile Technologies

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - July 07, 2016) - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration today is announcing six new members are joining the organization: Bitnami, CoSoSys, GigaSpaces, Thundersoft, NXT Foundation and INUIT Foundation - University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Open source software is leading the way for mass, cross-industry collaboration spanning web applications, security protocols, cloud software, and mobile devices. To overcome interoperability barriers and speed the rate of innovation for the next generation of computing, The Linux Foundation unites thousands of developers across hundreds of global companies and open source projects. These professionals collaborate with The Linux Foundation to build common, open source technology platforms, develop best practices and provide a foundation for the world's largest efforts to advance open source software.

"Open source software enables companies to collaborate across industries and reach new levels of innovation faster than working alone. The Linux Foundation provides the critical infrastructure needed to enable this level of collaboration," said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. "These new members represent the continuing shift towards open source as the de facto way to build technology solutions."

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Bitnami provides free, ready-to-run open source server applications as native installers, virtual appliances (VMs) cloud templates, and containers. With Bitnami, users of any skill level can have a complete data visualization tool, blogging platform, bug-tracking software, software development environment or other applications up and running in minutes.

"Bitnami is constantly striving to make it easy for users to run their favorite apps and development frameworks by making our applications more flexible and accessible to a larger audience," said David Dennis, VP of Marketing, Bitnami. "Open source technology is at the heart of this effort, and we're excited to join The Linux Foundation as we increase our development efforts around microservices, orchestration templates, and other key pieces of the rapidly evolving cloud and container ecosystems."