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The Open Group (at the origin the X/Open Company) is a industrial Consortium founded by IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu which defines some standards in the field of the data-processing Ingénierie, in particular the application program interfaces.

The organization is recognized for their publication of the Single UNIX Specification, which replaces the standards POSIX in the eyes of several developers of operating systems.

Open Group also has the Brand name UNIX. Open Group offers services of certification, test of conformity to the standards and several publications with the use of the various operating systems derived from Unix. Many these publications are accessible to the members exclusively.

Open Group was auparant known under the names of Open Software Foundation and X/Open Company.

During its existence, the organization invents and standardizes, in particular:

the Single UNIX Specification
the Call Level Interfaces (at the base of ODBC)
the Common Desktop Environment, CDE
OpenDoc, an old specification for documents Composite S
LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol )
the whole of widgets, Motif (used in CDE)

Open Group also certifies software out of their control, such:

the implementations of CORBA, Common Request Broker Structures , such as definite by the Object Management Group
the Linux Standard Bases Free Standards Group

The term UNIX98 was set up by Open Group.

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Official site

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