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Emerson Network Power Announces Commitment to Support OpenSAF Foundation

Future AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA Avantellis platforms will offer OpenSAF

TEMPE, Ariz. [January 29, 2008] – Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, today pledged to support the recently announced OpenSAF Foundation and confirmed its commitment to provide OpenSAF on all of its future AdvancedTCA® and MicroTCA™  Avantellis™ platforms.

In order to broaden the reach and success of the OpenSAF Foundation – which is dedicated to the development of a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) specifications – the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power will offer a full range of professional services to augment the OpenSAF integration experience. To ease platform and application integration, customers will have access to Emerson Network Power’s embedded computing Design Engineering services as well as Development Consulting and Development Support services. This extended support will supplement their own design staffs with dedicated, experienced engineers who can provide assistance with software development, programming and debugging. 

Additionally, Emerson Network Power will offer a full range of training, support and maintenance services to the broad OpenSAF community, and will provide adopters and application developers with access to its technical support resources.

“As a founding member of the OpenSAF Foundation, the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power will continue to actively contribute to the Open Source project, which is evident in our commitment to provide OpenSAF on all of our future ATCA and MicroTCA Avantellis platforms,” said Jorge Magalhaes, vice president of marketing for the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power. “This pledge will introduce OpenSAF benefits to a large, rapidly growing customer base, which in turn will help to improve time-to-market, as well as reduce hardware dependency and increase R&D efficiency for a significantly increased number of OpenSAF users.”

The open source project was initially launched in mid 2007 and has been under development by an informal group of supporters of the OpenSAF initiative. A non-profit organization, the OpenSAF Foundation was established January 22, 2008 by leading communications and enterprise computing companies to facilitate the OpenSAF Project and to accelerate the adoption of the OpenSAF code base in commercial products. Concurrently, the code base was released under the LGPL v2.1 license.

Details of OpenSAF can be found at www.opensaf.org .

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About Emerson Network Power
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), is the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™. The company is the trusted source for adaptive and ultra-reliable solutions that enable and protect its customers’ business-critical technology infrastructures. Backed by the largest global services organization in the industry, Emerson Network Power offers a full range of innovative power, embedded computing, precision cooling and connectivity products and services for computer, communications, healthcare and industrial systems. For more information, visit www.emersonnetworkpower.com.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2007 were $22.6 billion. For more information, visit www.emerson.com.  

Contact:   
Lee Ann Kuster
Embedded Computing
Emerson Network Power
+1 602 438 3623

 

Shreek Raivadera
Embedded Computing
Emerson Network Power
+44 (0) 116 267 7396

 

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