1. An Open Group Perspective
James de Raeve VP Business Development

2. The Open Group Formed in 1997 Membership open to all 60 employees
From The Open Software Foundation
X/Open
Membership open to all
60 employees
Offices in
Reading, UK; San Francisco, CA; Woburn, MA; Tokyo
Over 200 members,
~ 30% buy side

3. Mission
The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow by
Working with customers to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices;
Working with suppliers, consortia and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies;
Offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and
Developing and operating the industry's premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified products.

4. How Membership activities Architecture Active Loss Prevention
Directory interoperability
Enterprise Management
Mobile Management
Platform (UNIX)
Real Time & Embedded Systems
Security
Business, legal and regulatory, technical aspects
Services to Consortia
Admin, logistics, support
Certification program development and operation
LSB, WAP, SIF, OSGi, LDAP
Test suite development and maintenance
R&D
Mainly for DARPA.
e.g. QUITE
Open Source homesteading
“Pegasus” CIM/WBEM manageability services broker

5. For Buyers
Helping government and industry buyers make sense of what’s going on, and apply it in their business
Business Scenarios
Architecture
Strategy
Case studies
Interaction with peers
Providing practical support to assist procurement
Certification

6. Speeding up the Process….
Standard setting and evolution
To meet business requirements
Technically qualified and respected support for technical working groups
Convergent consensus process
Clarity about IPR
Integrate into “product” sized sets
Open Source implementations
To accelerate adoption into products
Test suites
To help developers get it right
Certification
To help buyers know what will work

7. Some Examples

8. UNIX® The Open Group owns the UNIX trademark
It is licensed for use only in relation to certified products
A principle term in the license is that the supplier guarantees that the product complies with the Single UNIX Specification
Not just what is covered by tests
UNIX 98 is the current version of the certification program

9. Use by Federal Agencies - NASA SEWP III
UNIX 95 branded with delivery of a copy of the Open Group branding certificate provided with the proposal.
UNIX 98 branding may be substituted for the UNIX 95 requirement (desirable)
POSIX [IEEE POSIX ]; compliant. The Government will accept the vendor’s self certification for POSIX compliance
“The Minimum Mandatory Specifications (Tab 1) and UNIX 95 or UNIX 98 Certifications (Tab 2) are minimum requirements. Proposal will not be evaluated further and/or considered for award if they do not meet these two requirements.”
The offeror shall describe their implementation of and commitment to open standards promulgated by standards organizations such as: OpenGroup, IEEE, ANSI, etc. The offeror shall include a corporate statement of commitment to future UNIX branding and address their commitment to future Open Group standards.

10. The Austin Group Formed to update the Single UNIX specification
a single text to be adopted by multiple parties –IEEE, ISO SC22 WG15, The Open Group
Over 700 participants on the mailing list
Wide industry support:
AT&T, Compaq, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Red Hat, SGI, Siemens, Sun
DoD, USENIX, Canada revenue
Participation from the open source community
The Linux Standard Base, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and many others

11. Process 2H2001 1999 2000 2001 POSIX.1-1996 POSIX amendments
1d,1g,1j,1q
POSIX
amendments
1d,1g,1j,1q
Draft 5
Review draft
Draft 5
Review draft
Sanity Review
Sanity Review
Revised
Standard
Single UNIX
Specification
Version 2
Draft 1
Joint
Revision
Draft 1
Joint
Revision
POSIX
1003.1a,
1003.2b,
1003.2d
1003.1a,
1003.2b,
1003.2d
ISO C 99
ISO C 99

12. Status Approvals Certification & Testing The Open Group IEEE ISO/IEC
September 12th 2001
IEEE
December 6th 2001
ISO/IEC
Approval expected in 2H2002
Certification & Testing
Test suite updates under development
available 3Q2002
Certification available ….. when the market is ready

13. DVB – Multimedia Home Platform
Funded by a consortium of implementers
led by Sony
Test development contracted to The Open Group
Over 2,000 tests
Contributions from consortium members
Final set of tests will be published by ETSI

14. WAP Forum – (now OMA) Developed Application layer test suites for
WAP June 2000
WAP 2.0
Funded by WAP Forum/OMA
Developed and operate on line testing and certification service for WAP 1.1 and June 2000
Funded from certification revenues

15. POSIX Realtime Developed test suites for the POSIX realtime amendments
1003.1d/1003.1j/1003.1q)
Funded by DISA

16. Boston Conference July 21 – 26
Boudaryless Information Flow – the Role of Web Services
Keynote by Tim Berners-Lee of W3C
Case studies
Discussions on
Web Services Standards
Legal issues and Intellectual Property Rights
Identity Management
Certification and Testing
Quality of Service
Speakers from W3C, DMTF, OASIS