The Open Group is a vendor-neutral, international consortium of over 200 members with combined IT budgets in excess of $55 billion annually. It has been the technology industry's flagship specifications, testing and branding organization for over a decade and established many of the open technologies on which billions of dollars of IT systems rely today.
The
Open Group is working with suppliers and users establishing interoperability
requirements across existing multiple platforms, today's new Internet-based
technologies, and looking to tomorrow's investment decisions.
Formed in February 1996 by merging X/Open Company Ltd. and the Open Software Foundation, the company's eight sponsors are Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Siemens-Nixdorf Informations systeme AG, Fujitsu Ltd, Hitachi Ltd, International Business Machines Corporation, NCR Corporation, and Sun Microsystems Inc.
The Open Group can be reached at www.opengroup.org.
The Open Group's strategy is driven but its IT DialTone Vision, looking for ward to a world where all kinds of information systems just plug into a network and interwork seamlessly; where there are no technical barriers to the use of public information networks for all kinds of electronic business interactions.
The Open Group's mission is to facilitate the creation of trust in multi-source interoperability and enable choice with confidence through a partnership of customers and vendors.
The Open Group will execute its mission through a combination of:
The
Open Group
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