Common Open Software Environment

The Common Desktop Environment, one part of the COSE initiative

The Common Open Software Environment (COSE) was an initiative formed in March 1993 by the major Unix vendors of the time to create open, unified operating system (OS) standards.[1]

  1. ^ "UNIX Leaders Announce Common Open Software Environment" (Press release). Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corp., The Santa Cruz Operation, SunSoft, Inc., Univel, UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. 1993-03-17. Retrieved 2006-09-01.