From rebellion to industrial practices keeping the freshness and enthusiasm of Open Source tradition

QualiPSo motivation

There are many popular myths against Open Source Software since it was born. "Open Source Software is against commerce", "Open source is only used by hackers and technology elites", "Nobody controls development and anybody can change the software, which eventually becomes unstable and insecure", "There is not any support" are some of the sentences that frequently you may listen to.

However, many relevant analysts remark the growing challenges of the Open Source to foster the industrial ecomony at worlwide level. According to Gartner, Open Source is one of the top IT issues: "Open Source is a catalyst that will restructure the industry, producing higher-quality software at a lower cost".

QualiPSo mission

The QualiPSo consortium has been founded to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness by providing the way to use trusted low-cost, flexible Open Source Software to develop innovative and reliable information systems. To meet this goal, QualiPSo intends to define and implement the technologies, processes and policies to facilitate the development and use of Open Source software components, with the same level of trust traditionally offered by proprietary software. This will leverage the Open Source Software development current practices to sound, well recognised and established industrial operations.

QualiPSo initiative

A unique alliance of European, Brazilian and Chinese ICT industry players, SMEs, governments and academics to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software.

QualiPSo is one of the largest Open Source initiative funded by the European Commission, and is funded under EU’s sixth framework program (FP6), as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) initiative. QualiPSo is launched in synergy with Europe’s technology initiatives such as NESSI and Artemis.