Friend Software Corporation is a young Norwegian company that has developed an open source operating environment that provides a device and platform independent computing workspace enabling rapid development and wide scale deployment of code. 

The Friend Unifying Platform includes two major components: a ready to use virtual computer instance, running atop any client device, and a network management component that enables client devices to share resources with other clients and decentralized servers.

The Platform is a liquid software solution that decouples applications (both legacy and cloud native) from the underlying hardware providing users with a cloud resident digital environment they can access from anywhere on any device. Furthermore, the Friend Network manager provides a means for all devices to offer their local device hardware and computing resources to a distributed network ‘pool’ of nodes, so as to programmatically borrow or lend underutilized processing resources from/to other clients in the network.