On May 28th, 2007, the OW2 Consortium Founding Ceremony & Seminar of International Cooperation for the National 863 Program was held at BUAA (Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics), China,.

Mr. Wang Chunheng, director of the Department of New/High-Tech Development and Industrialization, Ministry of Science & Technology, Mr. Cedric Thomas, CEO of the OW2 Consortium, Prof. Huai Jinpeng, Vice President of the OW2 Consortium, headmaster of BUAA and Peking University, and representatives of CVIC SE attended this ceremony, along with many experts from the National 863 Program and representatives from all segments of the IT industry. Dr. Liu Jiangning, General Manager of CVIC SE Business Middleware Co., Ltd., gave a lecture about the development of OW2 Consortium in China.

OW2 Consortium, a global open-source software community headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, co-founded by Orientware and ObjectWeb, aims at developing open source code middleware and fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The consortium is an independent non-profit organization open to companies, institutions, and individuals.

Thanks to the initial thrust of the co-founders who dedicated time, expertise, and financial resources to the project, the OW2 Consortium quickly gained the support of open source activists from around the world. A continuous cycle of contributions and expanding benefits has resulted in a rich business ecosystem of over 100 projects backed by more than 6,000 enthusiastic supporters.

Nowadays, OW2 Consortium projects are facilitating the development, deployment and management of distributed applications with a focus on open source middleware and related development and management tools. In the open source software value chain, OW2 is positioned as an industry platform facilitating interaction between open source code producers and open source code consumers.