A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
Collabora Productivity, Element, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, and XWiki have put their names behind a new Berlin-registered company called Open Productivity Software GmbH .
Executive Summary
Collabora Productivity, Element, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, and XWiki have put their names behind a new Berlin-registered company called Open Productivity Software GmbH . Leading the firm are the two managing directors, Dr. Gerald Pfeifer and Peter Ganten , who are tasked with making it all work. Pfeifer held leadership roles at SUSE before taking the job, while Ganten is the CEO of Univention.
Distribution Engineering & Packaging Ecosystem Audit
From a Linux distribution, deployment reliability, and systems engineering perspective: - **Dependency Determinism:** Declarative and isolated package trees guarantee reproducible execution across production hosts. - **Platform Integration:** Tighter alignment with target hardware profiles improves driver interoperability and device stability. - **Supply Chain Integrity:** Independent package verification and public build infrastructure prevent unauthorized supply-chain regressions.
Impact on the Open Ecosystem
Strengthens transparent, community-governed distributions against closed software and proprietary lock-in.