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On March 2, we hosted our very first webinar of the year, An introduction to the Symphony Software Foundation project life cycle. During the discussion Peter Monks, our VP of Technology, reviewed the refined Foundation project life cycle and addressed:
Open source is valuable in many ways, and as more and more people in the financial services industry realize this and embrace said value, it creates a mutually beneficial ecosystem for those involved.
The Symphony Software Foundation’s mission is to foster the open development of software infrastructure shared by the financial services and fintech industries. And while even the last holdouts against open source in the software industry have at last embraced collaborative development—Microsoft recently joined the Linux Foundation—most financial services firms still approach open source with caution.
As you might remember, at Symphony Innovate 2016, Symphony announced the development of a powerful integration framework and readily available integrations extending the Symphony platform to transform the way we work and collaborate. At the same time, we also announced that all of these integrations as well as the framework would be contributed to the Symphony Software Foundation. As a refresher, here are the integrations that were announced:
In a recent article on O’Reilly, Rachel Roumeliotis illustrated the five software development trends shaping enterprise in 2017. The very first trend, however, was not at all surprising to us here at the Symphony Software Foundation: Open source continues to shape our world.
