Association Launched to Support Tizen Software Platform

Tizen Association has been formed to drive industry engagement and in-market support for the Tizen software platform.

The newly formed association is dedicated to guide Tizen and its application ecosystem to address the broad industry requirement for a software platform that enables flexibility in service selection and deployment.

Tizen Association was formed on January 1, 2012, and its Board of Directors comprises several mobile industry leaders including Intel, NEC Casio, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom (News - Alert), Telefonica and Vodafone.

The Board of Directors will guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and industry marketing and education.

Following this announcement, the industry- and market-facing role of LiMo Foundation (News - Alert) has been incorporated into Tizen Association. The engineering of the Tizen software platform is taking place within the Tizen open source project hosted by Linux Foundation (News - Alert).

According to a release, www.tizen.org is a Linux-based open source, standards-based, cross-architecture device software platform the alpha release of which was made available on  January 9, 2012.

Tizen software platform includes an operating system, HTML5 application framework and customizable user experience. Tizen is claimed by the company to span multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems.   

"LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major mobile Linux proponents within a renewed ecosystem with an open web vision of application development which will help device vendors to innovate through software and liberalize access to consumers for developers and service providers," noted Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation.

Read a related article at TMCnet “LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source (News - Alert) Software Platform, Tizen.”

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