Mountain View Alliance

The Mountain View Alliance (MVA) was a consortium of consortia that existed between June 2005 and January 2008 and was intended to enable the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions through coordination of marketing activities. The MVA was the creator and sponsor of the MVA Comms Ecosystem Conference.
Member organizations
Representatives from the founding organizations — the Network Processing Forum, the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group, and the Service Availability Forum — began meeting in December 2004. The RapidIO Trade Association, the SCOPE Alliance, OCAF, CP-TA, and the Tele Management Forum subsequently joined. In early 2006 the Network Processing Forum merged its operations with the Optical Internetworking Forum which has subsequently joined the Mountain View Alliance.
Goals
The goal of the Mountain View Alliance was to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to optimize effectiveness of its member organizations through coordinated marketing activities including joint trade show participation, joint meetings, and outreach activities. The Mountain View Alliance aimed to promote a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification based components and platforms.
The goal of these activities was to create a diverse and thriving ecosystem of suppliers of open architecture platforms and components where vendors are focused on adding value.
Operating model
The MVA operated as an ad hoc committee with no budget of its own. It produced no specifications of its own and was limited to discussions of publicly disclosed information. All decisions that it made were non-binding on its member organizations.
Sponsored Conference
The Mountain View Alliance sponsored the MVA Comms Ecosystem Conference where member organizations meet to share views, participate in round table discussions of industry leaders regarding technology and business trends.
Apparent termination of operations
The Mountain View Alliance closed in early 2008 when the representative organizations refocused their efforts.

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