Definitions for "Open Group"
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The Parent company of a number of standards organizations including The Active Group - now managing the core ActiveX technology, X/Open, and OSF.
Formed by the merger of the Open Software Foundation and X/Open in 1996, the Open Group's mission is to deliver assurance of conformance to open systems standards through the testing and certification of suppliers' products.