"Open specifications are an important prerequisite for equipment providers, platform providers and independent software vendors to offer innovative, highly available applications and services that meet customer expectations for continuity of service. We anticipate that the Service Availability Forum will provide building block providers with lower costs and time-to-market improvements needed to build new revenue and sustain market growth. As a founding member of the Service Availability Forum, Intel is committed to the success of the Forum and the open specification that it is working to create."
— Joe Jensen, general manager, Embedded Intel Architecture Division, Intel Corporation