The Open Group

The Open Group is a industry consortium sponsored by IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu for forming de facto-standardss in the field of software engineering, in particular APIs. It was formed from a merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open. The group is most known for its publication of the Single UNIX Specification paper, which (in the eyes of many OS developers) is quickly superseding the POSIX standards. In addition, it is the owner of the UNIX trademark. The Open Group provides conformance testing, certifications and white papers usually concerning Unix operating systems. Many of its papers are members-only. The following is a partial list of inventions and standardizations by The Open Group.

• The Single UNIX Specification\n*The Call Level Interface (the basis for ODBC)\n*the Common Desktop Environment, CDE\n*OpenDoc, a now defunct specification for compound documents\n*LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol\n*The Motif GUI widgetset (used in CDE)\n*For a time, The Open Group maintained and developed the X Window System.

The Open Group also certifies things that it does not specify and control itself, such as:

• CORBA, the Common Request Broker Architecture implementations, as specified by the Object Management Group.\n*Linux Standard Base from the Free Standards Group.

Table of contents

1 Similar organisations 2 See also 3 External link

Similar organisations

• W3C\n* IEEE

See also

• UNIX wars

External link

• http://www.opengroup.org/

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