The Odonata company

Real-time enterprise information integration is becoming increasingly critical, due to the growing information access requirements generated by the Internet and automated data exchanges, and the growing complexity and heterogeneity of enterprise information systems.

New approaches have been recently proposed to efficiently solve the information integration issues. The XQuare technology, based on research work on XML-based data integration carried out since 1997 by Professor Georges Gardarin and its team in the PRISM laboratory of the Versailles Saint-Quentin University, is among those approaches. Having since undergone an important industrialisation phase, the XQuare components are now released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) by the University and Odonata.

Odonata's mission is to :

• Establish an open source distribution channel for the XQuare technology, and coordinate the support and evolutions of the software, together with the Versailles Saint-Quentin University.
• Set up a commercial professional services offer based on the XQuare technology.
• Develop a community of users and contributors to generate the momentum allowing the technology to evolve based on market demand and competition.
• Establish partnerships with other open source actors, to exploit potential synergies and define a global offer able to compete with the commercial offers of large software vendors. As a major step in that direction, Odonata has joined the ObjectWeb consortium in September 2003.