X/Open Plans Meetings at UniForum '95

Informational meetings covering recent activities of X/Open Co. Ltd. and the X/Open Joint Councils will be held Wednesday, March 15, in Dallas at UniForum '95. All attendees of the conference and trade show are invited.

A meeting will be held from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. in which representatives of X/Open member companies will describe how X/Open's partnership of major IT buyers and suppliers is attempting to help buyers make better purchase decisions and help software vendors adjust to user needs. The panel session will include short presentations and time for questions and answers. Speakers will be Alain Robert, assistant CIO of Elf Aquitainne, who is chairman of the X/Open User Council; Steve Zalewski, Oracle Corp. representative on the X/Open ISV Council and a member of the UniForum Board of Directors; Glenn Johnson, of Digital Equipment Corp., chairman of X/Open; and Geoff Morris, CEO and director of X/Open.

A second meeting, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., will consist of an X/Open Joint Councils Requirements Plenary. Representatives from user organizations will report on their priorities for standards-based products in areas such as distributed systems management and desktop-to-server integration. These requirements will form the basis of work programs in X/Open and other standards-setting bodies. Presentations will cover how X/Open's open systems requirements process works and where it is leading. Speakers include Geoff Coupe of Shell International, Karl Schopmeyer of Credit Lyonnais, Georganna Murto of the U.S. Department of Defense, Simone Sedillot, of INRIA, the French research organization, and Mike Lambert, vice president and chief technical officer of X/Open.