The Open Group

Last updated
The Open Group
Predecessor
Founded1996;28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters
Offices in San Francisco; Reading, Berkshire; Brazil; Shanghai; and Mumbai
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Steve Nunn (President and CEO)
Website www.opengroup.org

The Open Group is a global consortium that seeks to "enable the achievement of business objectives" by developing "open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications." It has 900+ member organizations and provides a number of services, including strategy, management, innovation and research, standards, certification, and test development. [1] It was established in 1996 when X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation.

Contents

The Open Group is the certifying body for the UNIX trademark, [2] and publishes the Single UNIX Specification technical standard, which extends the POSIX standards. The Open Group also develops and manages the TOGAF standard, which is an industry standard enterprise architecture framework. [3]

Members

The 900+ members include a range of technology vendors and buyers as well as government agencies, including, for example, Capgemini, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Orbus Software, IBM, Huawei, the United States Department of Defense and NASA. There is no obligation on product developers or vendors to adopt the standards developed by the association.

Platinum members: [4]

  1. DXC Technology, United States
  2. Fujitsu, Japan
  3. Huawei Technologies, China
  4. IBM, United States
  5. Intel, United States
  6. OpenText, Canada
  7. Shell, Netherlands

History

By the early 1990s, the major UNIX system vendors had begun to realize that the standards rivalries (often called the "Unix wars") were causing all participants more harm than good, leaving the UNIX industry open to emerging competition from Microsoft. The COSE initiative in 1993 can be considered to be the first unification step, and the merger of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) and X/Open in 1996 as the ultimate step, in the end of those skirmishes. OSF had previously merged with Unix International in 1994, meaning that the new entity effectively represented all elements of the Unix community of the time. [5]

In January 1997, the responsibility for the X Window System was transferred to The Open Group from the defunct X Consortium. In 1999, X.Org was formed to manage the X Window System, with management services provided by The Open Group. The X.Org members made a number of releases up to and including X11R6.8 while The Open Group provided management services. In 2004, X.Org and The Open Group worked together to establish the newly formed X.Org Foundation which then took control of the x.org domain name, and the stewardship of the X Window System.

Programs

Certification

Key services of The Open Group are certification programs, [6] including certification for products and best practices: POSIX, UNIX, and O-TTPS.

The Open Group offers certifications for technology professionals. In addition to TOGAF certification which covers tools, services and people certification, The Open Group also administers the following experience-based Professional Certifications: Certified Architect (Open CA), [7] Certification Program Accreditation, [8] Certified Data Scientist (Open CDS), [9] Certified Technical Specialist (Open CTS), [10] and Certified Trusted Technology Practitioner (Open CTTP). [11] The Open Group also offers certification for ArchiMate tools and people, as well as people certification for Open FAIR [12] and IT4IT, [13] standards of The Open Group.

Collaboration Services

The Open Group also provides a range of services, from initial setup and ongoing operational support to collaboration, standards and best practices development, and assistance with market impact activities. [14] They assist organizations with setting business objectives, strategy and procurement, and also provide certification and test development. This includes services to the government agencies, suppliers, and companies or organizations set up by governments. [14]

Inventions and standards

See also

Related Research Articles

The Portable Operating System Interface is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines system and user-level application programming interfaces (APIs), along with command line shells and utility interfaces, for software compatibility (portability) with variants of Unix and other operating systems. POSIX is also a trademark of the IEEE. POSIX is intended to be used by both application and system developers.

The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark. The standard specifies programming interfaces for the C language, a command-line shell, and user commands. The core specifications of the SUS known as Base Specifications are developed and maintained by the Austin Group, which is a joint working group of IEEE, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 15 and The Open Group. If an operating system is submitted to The Open Group for certification, and passes conformance tests, then it is deemed to be compliant with a UNIX standard such as UNIX 98 or UNIX 03.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Unix wars</span> Struggles between Unix vendors to set the standard for Unix

The Unix wars were struggles between vendors to set a standard for the Unix operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

X/Open group was a consortium founded by several European UNIX systems manufacturers in 1984 to identify and promote open standards in the field of information technology. More specifically, the original aim was to define a single specification for operating systems derived from UNIX, to increase the interoperability of applications and reduce the cost of porting software. Its original members were Bull, ICL, Siemens, Olivetti, and Nixdorf—a group sometimes referred to as BISON. Philips and Ericsson joined in 1985, at which point the name X/Open was adopted.

Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and other access control criteria, is used to determine which system resources a user can access. The password file maps textual user names to UIDs. UIDs are stored in the inodes of the Unix file system, running processes, tar archives, and the now-obsolete Network Information Service. In POSIX-compliant environments, the shell command id gives the current user's UID, as well as more information such as the user name, primary user group and group identifier (GID).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Open Group Architecture Framework</span> Reference model for enterprise architecture

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is the most used framework for enterprise architecture as of 2020 that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture. TOGAF is a high-level approach to design. It is typically modeled at four levels: Business, Application, Data, and Technology. It relies heavily on modularization, standardization, and already existing, proven technologies and products.

cpio is a general file archiver utility and its associated file format. It is primarily installed on Unix-like computer operating systems. The software utility was originally intended as a tape archiving program as part of the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX), and has been a component of virtually every Unix operating system released thereafter. Its name is derived from the phrase copy in and out, in close description of the program's use of standard input and standard output in its operation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enterprise architecture framework</span> Frame in which the architecture of a company is defined

An enterprise architecture framework defines how to create and use an enterprise architecture. An architecture framework provides principles and practices for creating and using the architecture description of a system. It structures architects' thinking by dividing the architecture description into domains, layers, or views, and offers models – typically matrices and diagrams – for documenting each view. This allows for making systemic design decisions on all the components of the system and making long-term decisions around new design requirements, sustainability, and support.

TMPDIR is the canonical environment variable in Unix and POSIX that should be used to specify a temporary directory for scratch space. Most Unix programs will honor this setting and use its value to denote the scratch area for temporary files instead of the common default of /tmp or /var/tmp.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to information technology:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ArchiMate</span> Enterprise architecture modeling language

ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains in an unambiguous way.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Unix-like</span> Operating system that behaves similarly to Unix, e.g. Linux

A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell. Although there are general philosophies for Unix design, there is no technical standard defining the term, and opinions can differ about the degree to which a particular operating system or application is Unix-like.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Unix</span> Family of computer operating systems

Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

Enterprise interoperability is the ability of an enterprise—a company or other large organization—to functionally link activities, such as product design, supply chains, manufacturing, in an efficient and competitive way.

The Computing Technology Industry Association, more commonly known as CompTIA, is an American non-profit trade association that issues professional certifications for the information technology (IT) industry. It is considered one of the IT industry's top trade associations.

The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment was formed in 2010 to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. Today, it is a real-time software-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and users. The FACE approach is a government-industry software standard and business strategy for acquisition of affordable software systems that promotes innovation and rapid integration of portable capabilities across programs. The FACE Consortium provides a vendor-neutral forum for industry and government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, guidance documents, and business strategy necessary to result in:

The Banking Industry Architecture Network e.V. (BIAN) is an independent, member owned, not-for-profit association to establish and promote a common architectural framework for enabling banking interoperability. It was established in 2008.

The Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) is a standard of The Open Group that has also been approved for publication as an Information Technology standard by the International Organization of Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission through ISO/IEC JTC 1 and is now also known as ISO/IEC 20243:2015. The standard consists of a set of guidelines, requirements, and recommendations that align with best practices for global supply chain security and the integrity of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) information and communication technology (ICT) products. It is currently in version 1.1. A Chinese translation has also been published.

Danny Greefhorst is a Dutch enterprise architect and consultant at ArchiXL, known for his work in the field of enterprise architecture.

ADOIT is an enterprise architecture management tool that provides functionality and methods for enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation. The platform supports alignment and improvement of dependencies between business and IT as well as manages and analyses the dependencies between different organizational assets. The EA suite ADOIT is based on various international standards, including TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, and COBIT. The suite is ArchiMate 3.1 and TOGAF-9 certified. Developed by the BOC Group, ADOIT represents the company's second flagship product along with their business process management and analysis tool, ADONIS NP.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Opengroup.org. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  2. ↑ "The Open Brand". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  3. 1 2 "TOGAF". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  4. ↑ "Open Group Membership Report". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  5. ↑ Salus, Peter H. "The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin". Groklaw.net. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
  6. ↑ "Certifications | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  7. ↑ "Certified Architect (Open CA) | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  8. ↑ "Certification Program Accreditation | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  9. ↑ "Open Certified Data Scientist (Open CDS) | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  10. ↑ "Certified Technical Specialist (Open CTS) | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  11. ↑ "Certified Trusted Technology Practitioner (Open CTTP) | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  12. ↑ "Open FAIR™ Certification | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  13. ↑ "IT4IT™ Forum | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  14. 1 2 "Services | The Open Group Website". www.opengroup.org. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  15. ↑ "ArchiMate Technical Standard". Opengroup.org. 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  16. ↑ "ArchiMate Exchange File Format Standard". Opengroup.org. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  17. ↑ "COMsource Index Page". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  18. ↑ "Technical Standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment Edition 2.0". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  19. ↑ "The Open Process Automation Standard takes flight- ISA". isa.org. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  20. ↑ "OSIMM". Opengroup.org. 2011-11-04. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  21. ↑ "Open Information Security Maturity Model". Opengroup.org. 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  22. ↑ "The SOA Source Book, 4th Edition". Opengroup.org. Aug 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.