At first, it was just in the form of directives and white papers that covering the use of a F/OSS, open-standards-based, modular Translation Memory system.

[1][2] The basic objectives of FOLT are the support of standardised exchange formats, non-proprietary software and testing new translation technologies and methods amid the increasing globalization of knowledge.

Later, Klemens Waldhor and Rainer Kemmler developed a cross-platform web-based system in Germany, which implemented OpenTMS in Java.

[3] This featured basic translation memory functions, including pre-translation, concordance search, and configuration of matching rates.

[3] Today, this system has been discontinued and is being integrated into the OpenTM2[4] as a translation memory plugin or server-based component.