eyeOS invented the web desktop 6 years ago and it is today the leading Cloud Desktop worldwide. Headquartered in Barcelona, eyeOS is one of the biggest Open Source projects in Europe with more than 1 million downloads and communities across the globe.
IBM has selected eyeOS as its preferred Open Source Cloud platform in 2010 and signed a global partnership. Gartner named eyeOS Cool Vendor in IT Operations management in 2011. The company has closed its first funding round with Spanish VCs and Business Angels in June 2011 and has just launched in October 2011 its first commercial license, the eyeOS Professional Edition.
“eyeOS is an excellent environment to manage thousands of concurrent desktop users” Under the terms of the agreement announced in December 2009, IBM will offer eyeOS to any client who purchases IBM server infrastructure (IBM Power i, System Z Mainframe). As IBM states in a Red paper about eyeOS, eyeOS has an excellent scalability on high-use servers, with thousands of customers accessing the Web services concurrently, making it an excellent solution in this environment.
This site (ibm.eyeos.com) contains additional details and information for IBM customers to broaden the possibilities of using eyeOS in their System Z servers.
Gartner selected eyeOS as one of the five Coolest Vendors in IT Operations Management (2011)“Line of business directors, IT infrastructure architects, system administrators and service providers will find this solution unique and useful”.
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Awards
2007
Sourceforge Finalista Best Project – Web Revelación Yahoo! España
2008
Sourceforge Finalista as Most Likely to Change the World – Finalistas WebWare 100 por CNET, en la categoria de “Navegación”
2009
BMW Innovation Award – Premio Nacional de Internet – SourceForge Project of the Month (August)
2010
Winner of Accelera (Ernst & Young) – Asturias & Girona Spanish Prince award “IMPULSA”
2011
Winner of MIT’s TR35 award as Innovator of the year in Spain
