Editing OSGi (section)

== Organization ==
The OSGi Alliance was founded by [[Ericsson]], [[IBM]], [[Motorola]], [[Sun Microsystems]] and others in March 1999. Before incorporating as a nonprofit corporation, it was called the Connected Alliance.

Among its members are ({{As of|2015|alt=as of February 2015}}) more than 35 companies from quite different business areas, for example [[Adobe Inc|Adobe Systems]], [[Deutsche Telekom]], [[Hitachi]], [[IBM]], [[Liferay]], Makewave, [[NEC]], [[Nippon Telegraph & Telephone|NTT]], [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]], [[Orange SA]], [[ProSyst]], [[Salesforce]], [[Siemens]], [[Software AG]] and [[TIBCO Software]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.osgi.org/About/Members|title=OSGi Alliance &#124; About / Members}}</ref>

The Alliance has a board of directors that provides the organization's overall governance.  OSGi officers have various roles and responsibilities in supporting the alliance. Technical work is conducted within Expert Groups (EGs) chartered by the board of directors, and non-technical work is conducted in various working groups and committees. The technical work conducted within Expert Groups include developing specifications, reference implementations, and compliance tests. These Expert Groups have produced five major releases of the OSGi specifications ({{as of|2012}}).

Dedicated Expert Groups exist for the enterprise, mobile, vehicle and the core platform areas.

The Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) is the newest EG and is addressing Enterprise / Server-side applications.
In November 2007 the Residential Expert Group (REG) started to work on specifications to remotely manage residential/home-gateways.
In October 2003, [[Nokia]], [[Motorola]], [[International Business Machines|IBM]], [[ProSyst]] and other OSGi members formed a Mobile Expert Group (MEG) that will specify a [[MIDP]]-based service platform for the next generation of smart mobile phones, addressing some of the needs that [[Connected Limited Device Configuration|CLDC]] cannot manage {{En dash}} other than [[Connected Device Configuration|CDC]]. MEG became part of OSGi as with R4.