Association Memberships for Open Group End Users

Offering based on new alliance between UniForum and The Open Group

The Open Group and the UniForum Association have announced that all end-user corporations belonging to The Open Group will receive blocks of memberships in UniForum. These memberships will be made available to individuals at the corporations.

The Open Group was recently formed by consolidating two leading consortia for open systems development: Open Software Foundation (OSF) at Cambridge, MA, and X/Open Co., Ltd. with offices in Reading, U.K.

Major UniForum membership benefits received by individuals at current and new end-user companies of The Open Group include:
"We are extremely enthusiastic about this announcement that will offer the customer members of The Open Group the significant added benefit of membership in the UniForum Association," said Peter Shaw, vice president of marketing and sales at OSF. Shaw stated that the new alliance with UniForum further strengthens the ties among end users and the various industry consortia supporting open systems development.