Originally a group of vendors (including IBM) which joined up to set up standards (particularly for Unix). Unlike UII and OSF, X/Open tried not to be partisan in the Unix battle. October 1993, Novell, the then owner of Unix, handed control of the Unix standard lock, stock, and barrel to X/Open, which then tested and branded implementations claiming to be Unix systems. November 1995, X/Open started cozying up to the OSF with the declared aim of making the two organizations appear as two sister divisions of a virtual corporation. The Open Group was the result. See also XPGn.
An organization which creates and promotes standards for vendor-neutral application program interfaces. The standard is called common applications environment (CAE) and contains specifications for GUIs, data access, and networks.
An independent open systems organization. Its strategy is to combine various standards into a comprehensive integrated systems environment called Common Applications Environment, which contains an evolving portfolio of practical APIs.
An independent, worldwide, open systems organization headquartered in the UK and supported by most of the world's largest information system suppliers, user organizations and software companies. Its mission is to bring to users greater value from computing, through the practical implementation of open systems.
A group (comprised of Bull, DEC, Ericsson, IBM, ICL, Olivetti, Philips, Siemens-Nixdorf, Unisys) that created a standard interface between software packages and Unix.
A body comprising of computer vendors, responsible for researching, defining and publicizing open systems.
Originally, an international consortium of computer vendors working to advance the deployment of Unix. X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation to form the Open Group in 1996, and the term "X/Open" is now used as an Open Group branding program.
A consortium promoting standards for computer systems related to software portability and interworking. It operates mostly by selecting profiles of standards from other sources, sells product 'branding' as X/Open compliant and provides documentation and related services to members who pay a fee to belong.
An international consortium of computer vendors that aims to create and promote a vendor-independent interface standard called the Common Applications Environment (CAE). CAE addresses the operating system interface., data management and languages, and will include networking and will include networking and a graphic user interface. X/Open was founded in Europe by European vendors, but has expanded to include a number of US companies ( AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, NCR, Unisys and Sun Microsystems ) and office in the United States.
A group of computer manufacturers that promotes the development of portable applications based on UNIX. They publish a document called the X/Open Portability Guide. Now part of The Open Group.
A consortium of computer-Industry vendors, chartered to specify an open system platform based on the UNIX operating system. ... more
X/Open Company, Ltd. was a consortium founded by several European UNIX systems manufacturers in 1984 to identify and promote open standards in the field of information technology. More specifically, the original aim was to define a single specification for operating systems derived from Unix, to increase the interoperability of applications and reduce the cost of porting software. Its original members were Bull, ICL, Siemens, Olivetti, and Nixdorf—a group sometimes referred to as BISON.