1. An Open Group Perspective James de Raeve VP Business Development j.deraeve@opengroup.org

2. The Open Group  Formed in 1997  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 1003.1-1990]; 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. ISO C 99 Revised Standard POSIX.1-1996 POSIX amendments 1d,1g,1j,1q Draft 1 Joint Revision Draft 5 Review draft 1999 Single UNIX Specification Version 2 1003.1a, 1003.2b, 1003.2d POSIX.2-1993 2H2001 Sanity Review ISO C 99 POSIX amendments 1d,1g,1j,1q Draft 1 Joint Revision Draft 5 Review draft 20002001 1003.1a, 1003.2b, 1003.2d Sanity Review Process

12. Status  Approvals  The Open Group  September 12 th 2001  IEEE  December 6 th 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 1.1  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  http://www.opengroup.org/Boston2002 http://www.opengroup.org/Boston2002  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