Day Software was founded in Switzerland in 1993 by dynamic, enterprising and innovative individuals who foresaw the dramatic changes the Internet would have on organizations, and the impact on interaction and communication between individuals and departments, and the way they do business. The goal of Day Software’s founders was to create technologies that would make it easy and affordable for enterprises to successfully integrate the web into their daily business operations.
The company has been publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: DAYN) since April 2000 and has over 200 implementations for leading global organizations such as Audi, Canton Zürich, Daimler, DHL Worldwide Express, McDonald’s Corporation, National Health Service UK, Swiss Government, TNT Express Worldwide, Volkswagen and others.
That standard is JSR 170 - Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). JCR is designed to overcome the challenge of proprietary content repositories, helping companies to dramatically reduce costs, while increasing the efficiency and accessibility of their existing content infrastructure. Day is now helping to define industry standards as an expert group member of phase 2 of JCR, JSR 283. Developed in 2007, JSR 283 is under the continued leadership of Day’s CTO, David Nuescheler, and in recent months has successfully completed the Public Review process.
CTO Nuescheler is also an active committee member of the working group drafting the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), a new proposed standard submitted to OASIS as a complementary standard to JCR.
In addition to driving industry standards, Day Software has been a leading force in the open source community. Day Chief Scientist Roy Fielding was co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, author of the Apache Software license, and creator of the Apache web server.
Day's R&D team are strong contributors to the open source world, with a development model based on building true open source communities around key technology advancements that originate in Day R&D through the sponsorship of new projects via the Apache Software Foundation.
Top-level projects such as Apache Jackrabbit (the reference implementation of the JSR-170 standard), Apache Sling (an industry-first REST-based web application development framework), and Apache Felix (an OSGi R4 Service Platform implementation) are examples of Day's unique commitment to open source.
In total, Day Software contributes to over 12 Apache projects and 25 open source projects. www.ohloh.org, an independent website that tracks open source contributions, shows that over 75% of Day engineers are active committers to open source projects, with over 75% of those engineers being ranked in the top 1% of open source developers worldwide. In December 2008, Day Software was recognized for its open source leadership by the Swiss Open Systems User Group and awarded their first annual Swiss Open Source Award.
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