With a large customer base of mainstream users, OCS Inventory is an established outsider in its market (MRL Level 8). The software is recognized. It is supported by an appropriate financing and an active community. View OCS Inventory Market Readiness synthesis.
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OW2con'25 Best Project Awards 0.2
🏆 We are happy to reveal the winners of the OW2 Best Project Awards 2025, which were just announced at the OW2con'25 Conference: LDAP tool Box (Technology Award), Linphone (Market Award), CryptPad (Community Award).
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OW2 is co-organizing with the OSPO Alliance team monthly webinars about open source software management. Join the next Sept. 19, 2025 webinar "Open Source and the OSPO at Centreon". Visit the OSPO Alliance website.
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