The DDS Forum has been launched today an online initiative dedicated to bringing together the worldwide community of Data Distribution Service (DDS) and real-time, Quality of Service (QoS) -enabled publish subscribe middleware architects, developers and practitioners. The DDS Forum will provide a platform to share views, experiences and know how for data-centric integration in today's most demanding SOA and net-centric applications. The DDS Forum can be accessed at http://www.dds-forum.org.