Launched in February, the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) came together to help open-source application vendors make their products work better together and gain visibility among enterprise users. One of the group's board members, Barry Klawans, who is also CTO with open-source business intelligence software vendor JasperSoft of San Francisco, discussed the Alliance's goals and enterprise IT plans with Computerworld here at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Excerpts from that interview follow