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Amazon is the latest company to join the OpenChain Project as a Platinum Member and to take a seat at the Governing Board and Steering Committee. This highlights their unwavering commitment to leadership in open source technology, process management and in building trusted supply chains.

“At Amazon, we believe in strengthening the open source ecosystem through collaboration and shared best practices,” said Nithya Ruff, Director of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. “By joining the OpenChain Project, we’re committed to contributing our experience across cloud services and consumer devices to support and evolve industry standards. We look forward to working with the OpenChain community to make supply chain collaboration easier and more effective for the industry.”

“Amazon pioneered modern digital management of complex supply chains at massive scale,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their engagement with the OpenChain Project, and more broadly with all aspect of open source process management, underlines the vital role that open standards and open communities play in building a more trusted supply chain. We look forward to benefiting from their thought-leadership as OpenChain enters the next stage of its evolution.”

About the OpenChain Project

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Today we are delighted to share the news that ZF Group has implemented an ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program.

This significant achievement underscores their commitment to excellence, innovation, and adherence to the highest standards of compliance and best practices in their open-source initiatives. As noted by Sarah Moser of the ZF Group team, implementing the ISO/IEC 5230 standard represents a crucial step in fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

ZF Group’s conformance was via third-party certification in collaboration with TIMETOACT. The approach they took, their motivations and their practical solutions will be highlight in a forthcoming OpenChain webinar and case study.

Huge thanks to Sarah, the ZF OSPO team and also Simon Pletschacher at TIMETOACT for not only making this happen, but helping to communicate it widely to inspire others.

About ZF Group

ZF is a global technology company represented with 161 production locations in 30 countries. With some 161,600 employees worldwide, ZF reported sales of €41.4 billion in fiscal year 2024.

Founded in 1915, ZF has evolved from a supplier specializing in aviation technology to a global mobility technology company.

Group shareholders include the Zeppelin Foundation, administered by the City of Friedrichshafen, holding 93.8 percent of shares, and the Dr. Jürgen and Irmgard Ulderup Foundation, Lemförde, with 6.2 percent.

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation:

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking, and storage solutions innovator based in Taipei, has announce and OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program.

About QNAP

QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) is devoted to providing comprehensive solutions in software development, hardware design and in-house manufacturing. Focusing on storage, networking and smart video innovations, QNAP now introduce a revolutionary Cloud NAS solution that joins our cutting-edge subscription-based software and diversified service channel ecosystem. QNAP envisions NAS as being more than simple storage and has created a cloud-based networking infrastructure for users to host and develop artificial intelligence analysis, edge computing and data integration on their QNAP solutions.

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation:

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.