OSGi-based cloud company Paremus and Makewave have announced a partnership to provide a fully supported software distribution, in an effort to accelerate OSGi adoption. Their 'Nimble Distribution' product will comprise of:

• Paremus OSGi Shell – an interactive shell and scripting environment for OSGi.
• Nimble Resolver – OBR dependency resolver and provisioner.
• Remote Services and Remote Services Admin – an implementation of the OSGi Alliance's specs by Paremus. It will include synchronous / asynchronous distribution providers and pluggable discovery.
• Makewave Knopflerfish Pro Enterprise – an implementation of the OSGi R4 V4.2 service platform spec.
• Alternative OSGi service platforms - Apache Felix and Equinox.

The Nimble Distribution Starter Pack is available as a free download, and can be used on up to 5 machines. Standard and Premium packages include access to the Paremus commercial OBR repository, and Premium customers can access the source code.