Xosia doesn't really stand for any one thing in particular but since we get asked a lot about it, the name is meant to be an acronym and originally came from playing around with various combinations of words such as, for example:

eXtreme Open Systems Integration + Architecture

It additionally has the following virtues that programmers will hopefully appreciate:

• It is short
• It has an OS in it

Xosia is meant to be pronounced with the 'X' as a clicking 'k' sound: "cosier".

• Adam Boardman (adam@xosia.com)
  Adam started his career in a web design house, but was soon employed by Zenobyte (formerly SGSoftware), and following a management split became part of PANSoftware. While there he wrote AdTrasher an Open Source advert filter for web content on the Symbian OS platform. Adam has worked in Symbian's SyncML, Connectivity and Messaging teams and for Opera in Oslo working on their browser. He recently completed a two year contract with MobileInnovation working on the UI framework for future Symbian OS smart/media/business phone devices.