GM Ramps Up Effort to Bring Customers Seamless Software Experiences Through Unified Automotive Standards

GM Ramps Up Effort to Bring Customers Seamless Software Experiences Through Unified Automotive Standards Connecting automotive applications and services across phone, cloud, and infrastructure systems regardless of vehicle brand is focus as GM joins Eclipse Foundation and shares uProtocol standard with communityBackDETROIT — General Motors announced today that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations. It has also contributed “uProtocol” as a starting point for greater standardization, enabling increased software productivity across the automotive industry that can lead to easy-to-use, software-enabled customer experiences. “We are excited that GM is joining the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle industry collaboration. They have clearly recognized the fundamental shift to collaborative open source software development that is taking place within the automotive market,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.