Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.



The Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) founded in Nuremberg  in May 2006 is a European-wide open source network. The members of OSBF are  companies, institutions and persons inspired by open source software. The activities  of the network always focus on the business benefits of open source software. The  Articles of Association of OSBF accordingly define the purpose of the association as  strengthening the open source software and service industry and creating and  safeguarding jobs in the development and service sectors.

OSBF also has political tasks and goals. The importance of open source software is  to be improved by actively coordinating opinion-making among OSBF members and by  lobbying third parties such as associations and politics. Typical fields of activity are  improving the political framework for the use of open source software, legal aspects of patents and licenses, local authority contract awarding guidelines or promoting the  use of open source software in small and medium enterprises. OSBF is to intensify dialog with ministries and political parties in Berlin and Brussels for this purpose.



The VOI (Verband Organisations- und Informationssysteme e.V.) is the association of the provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and document management systems (DMS) in Germany. It promotes the interests of its members and provides a "voice of information" a communicative bridge between providers and users for greater success in business.