The Open Group

The Open Group
Predecessor
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Steve Nunn (President and CEO)
Websitewww.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.

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]

  1. ^ "About Us". Opengroup.org. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  2. ^ "The Open Brand". Opengroup.org. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
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