Cloudsoft Strengthens Strategic Advisory Board with Appointment of Lawrence Rosen

Online, January 19, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Cloudsoft Strengthens Strategic Advisory Board with Appointment of Lawrence Rosen
Open Source Authority to Mentor Cloudsoft's Open Source Strategy

NEW YORK and EDINBURGH - Cloudsoft Corporation, a software innovator in enterprise platforms for cloud, today announced they have appointed Lawrence Rosen to their strategic advisory board. Rosen joins the board to help shape Cloudsoft's open source software strategy.

Rosen has a distinguished track record furthering the adoption and development of open source software and standards. He is a prominent attorney and founding partner of Rosenlaw and Einschlag, specializing in open source and intellectual property. He has served as general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community; as board member and legal counsel for the Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org); and as board member of the Open Web Foundation (www.openwebfoundation.org). Rosen has also taught at Stanford University, authored Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law, and is advisor to a number of open source companies, including Black Duck Software and Jaspersoft Corporation.

Rosen's timely appointment complements Cloudsoft's increasing involvement with the open source community centered on jclouds, the open source multi-cloud library aimed at Java, Clojure and other JVM language developers.

"Larry has made a significant contribution to the widespread adoption of open source software by enterprises," said Duncan Johnston-Watt, founder and CEO, Cloudsoft. "His experience will be invaluable as we work ever closer with the open source community, furthering the adoption of cloud, open standards and open source strategies."

About Cloudsoft Corporation
Cloudsoft is a software innovator that delivers enterprise platforms for internal, external and hybrid cloud. Through a combination of its own intellectual property and sponsorship of open-source projects, Cloudsoft enables enterprises to develop, manage and provision large-scale distributed applications at lower cost, complexity and risk. Headquartered in the UK, Cloudsoft is led by seasoned executives backed by a world-class advisory board, with a strong engineering group that holds several patents.
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