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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Open Software Foundation, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on May 11, 1994, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open Software Foundation, Inc.
(``OSF'') filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identifies
of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual
damage under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the
Act, the identities of the parties and the general areas of planned
activities, are given below.
The Executive Sponsors of OSF, which are its voting members are
AT&T Global Information Solutions Company, Dayton, OH; Digital
Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA; Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JAPAN;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA; Hitach, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY; Novell, Inc.,
Provo, UT; and SunSoft, Inc., Mountain View, CA.
The non-voting members of OSF are 3M Company, St. Paul, MN; 4th
Dimension Software, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL; ANSA-APM Ltd., Cambridge, UNITED
KINGDOM; ATRIUM TECHNOLOGIES INC, Austin, TX; Aalborg Univ.-Lab of
Image Analysis, Aalbord, DENMARK; Alcatel N.V., Paris, FRANCE; Alsys
Group, San Diego, CA; Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, PA;
American Express Travel Related Services, Phoenix, AZ; Andersen
Consulting, Chicago, IL; Andersen Consulting, Tokyo, JAPAN; Argonne
National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; Aristotelian University of
Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GREECE; Arizona State Univ/Engineering Comp
Serv, Tempe, AZ; Ascom Timeplex, Woodcliff Lake, NJ; Atlantic Richfield
Company, Plano, TX; Auspex Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Australian
National University, Canberra, AUSTRALIA; Banyan Systems, Inc.,
Westboro, MA; Barclays Bank PLC, Knutsford, Cheshire, ENGLAND; Battelle
Pacific Northwest, Richland, WA; Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., Whippany,
NJ; Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ; Bond University,
Queensland, AUSTRALIA, Boston University, Boston, MA; Brigham Young
University, Provo, UT; British Telecommunication Public Ltd. Co,
Felixstone, ENGLAND; Brown University, CS Dept., Providence, RI; Bull
User Society, Bull-Europe, Fontenay-sous-Bois, FRANCE; Bureau of the
Census/Casic Staff, Washington, DC; CCL/ITRI, Chutung, Hsinchu, TAIWAN;
CERN, European Org. for Nuclear Research, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; CSIRO
Division of Information Technology, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; CSK
Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; California Polytechnic State University, San
Luis Obispo, CA; Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA;
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Central & South West
Services, Dallas, TX; Centre Universitaire D' Informaique, Geneva,
SWITZERLAND; Centre de Recherche Public-Cntre Univ, Luxembourg,
LUXEMBOURG; Centre for Development of Telematics, New Delhi, INDIA;
Centre for Open Systems, Belrose, NSW, AUSTRALIA; Centrum voor Wiskunde
on Infroatica, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS; Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN; Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., San
Francisco, CA; Chinese Open Systems Association, Taipei, TAIWAN;
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territor, HONG KONG;
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KOREA; Citicorp, New York, NY; City
Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HONG KONG; Clarkson University,
Potsdam, NY; Clemson University, Clemson, SC; Columbia University, New
York, NY; Communication Culture Research Universitat Hannover,
Hannover, GERMANY; Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia,
NJ; Computer Center Piksi, Bandung, INDONESIA; Computer Institute of
Japan, Ld., Yokohama, JAPAN; Computing Laboratory, Univ. of Kent,
Canterbury, Kent, ENGLAND; Concurrent Computer Corp, Tintin Falls, NJ;
Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX; Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY; Cranfield Information Technology Inst., Fairways, Pitfield,
Kiln Farm Milton Keynes, UNITED KINGDOM; Cranfield Institute of Tech-
Pot Grad, Cranfield, Bedford, ENGLAND; Cray Research, Inc., Mendota
Heights, MN; DATSI Univ. Polytechnic Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN; DECUS U.S.
Chapter, San Jose, CA; DISA Center for Standards, Reston, VA; DSTC PTY
LTD, Old, AUSTRALIA; Daimler-Benz AG, Postfach, GERMANY; Dalhousie
University, Halifax, CANADA; Data General Corporation, Westborough, MA;
Defence Research Agency, Electronics Div, Malvern, Worcs, ENGLAND;
Department of Defense-Fort Meade, Fort Meade, MD; Deutsche Bundesport
Telekom, Bonn, GERMANY; Duke University, Durham, NC; E.N.S.I.E.G.,
D'Heres Cedex, FRANCE; EDS C4 Program Division, Troy, MI; Engineering
and Physical Sciences-Atlas Centre--Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Chilton, Didcot, ENGLAND; Esigetel, Avon, FRANCE; Expersoft
Corporation, San Diego, CA; Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND;
Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM; Edith Cowan
University, Churchlands, AUSTRALIA; Electric Power Research Institute,
Palo Alto, CA; Electronics & Telecommunications Rsch, Daejeon, KOREA;
Elf, Paris La Defense, FRANCE; Enabling Technologies Group, Inc.,
Atlanta, GA; European Telecomm. Informatic Services, Brussels, BELGIUM;
FIM-University of Linz, Linz-Auhof, AUSTRIA; Fachhochschule Wiesbaden,
Wiesbaden GERMANY; Fallmann und Bauernfeind, Linz, AUSTRIA; Flinders
Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA; Florida International
University, Miami, FL; Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI; Foundation of
Res. & Tech. Hellas, ICS Institute of Computer Science, Heraklio,
GREECE; Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; Fraunhofer-Institut
IAO, Stuttgart, GERMANY; Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, GERMANY;
Fundacao paro o Desenvolvimento dos, Lisboa, Codex, PORTUGAL; GKSS
Forschungszentrum Geesthaht GmbH, Geesthacht, GERMANY; GMD, Sankt
Augustin, GERMANY; GTE, Irving, TX; Government Communications
Headquarters, Gloucester, ENGLAND; Gradient, Technologies, Inc.,
Marlbourough, MA; Griffith University School of Computing & Info
Technology, Nathan, AUSTRALIA; Grumman Data Systems, Bethpage, NY;
Guardian Royal Exchange, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, ENGLAND; Hal
Computer Systems, Inc., Campbell, CA; Harvard Univ.--Div. of Applied
Sciences, Cambridge, MA; Harvard University--Office of Info Tech,
Cambridge, MA; Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA; Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ISRAEL; Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo,
FINLAND; Herbert H. Lehman College, West Bronx, NY; Hitachi Data
Systems Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, AZ;
Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Kowloon, HONG KONG; Household
International, Northbrook, IL; Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles,
CA; Hughes Applied Information Systems, Landover, MD; IBM Corporation-
JAPAN, Tokyo, JAPAN; IMAG, Grenoble Cedex, FRANCE; INRIA, Le Chesnay,
FRANCE; IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FRANCE; ITT Hartford
Insurance, Hartford, CT; Imperial College of Science, Tech, Medic,
London, ENGLAND; Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Bombay, INDIA;
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Info. Communication Inst. of
Singapore, Singapore Telecommunication Academy, SINGAPORE; Information
Builders, Inc., New York, NY; Informix Software, Inc., Menlo Park, CA;
Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A., Ivrea, ITALY; Institut Eurecom, Valbonne,
FRANCE; Institut Superieur D' Info. et'Automati, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy,
FRANCE; Institut fur Wirtschaftsinformtik, Saarbrucken, GERMANY;
Institute Mahajlo Pupin, Beograd, YUGOSLAVIA; Institute for Defense
Analyses, Alexandria, VA; Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan,
R.O.C., TAIWAN; Institute of Systems Science, Kent Ridge, Singapor,
SINGAPORE; Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica, Porto Codex, PORTUGAL;
Integrated Computer Solutions, Cambridge, MA; Intel Corporation, Santa
Clara, CA; Intellisoft Corporation, Acton, MA; InterWorks, Iowa City,
IA; Integraph Corporation, Palo Alto, CA; Interlink Computer Sciences,
Fremont, CA; JC Penney, Dallas, TX; Johns Hopkins University/Appl Phys
Lab, Laurel, MD; KAPSCH Aktiengessellschaft, Vienna, AUSTRIA; KEIO
University, Yokohama, JAPAN; Kendall Square Research Corp., Waltham,
MA; Konkuk University, Seoul KOREA; Korea Advanced Institute Science/
Tech Chungryang, Seoul, KOREA; Korea University, Seoul KOREA; Kwangwoon
University-IE Lab, Wodye-dong Soul, KOREA; Laboratory de l'Accelerateur
Lineaire, Orsay, Cedex, FRANCE; Landmark Systems Corporation, Vienna,
VA; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of CA, Berkeley, CA; Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Legent Corporation,
Westborough, MA; Leibniz Richenzentrum, Muenchen, GERMANY; Locus
Computing Corporation, Inglewood, CA; Loral Corporation, San Jose, CA;
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; MAXM Systems
Corporation, Vienna, VA; Mystech Associates, Falls Church, VA; Mamram
Computer Training Cente, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL; Manchester Computer Centre/
Unv. of Man., Manchester, ENGLAND; Martin Marietta Corporation,
Bethesda, MD; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Mead Data Central, Dayton,
OH; Medical Center of Delaware, New Castle, DE; Mercury Communications
Ltd., Brentford, Middlesex, ENGLAND; Merrill Lynch and Co. Inc., New
York, NY; Michigan Department of Transportation, Lansing, MI; Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI; Micro Focus, Palo Alto, CA;
MicroUnity Systems Engineering Inc., Sunyvale, CA; Microsoft
Corporation, Redmond, WA; Mirrors International, Inc., Taipei, TAIWAN;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura, Kanagawa Pr, JAPAN; Mobil E
& P Services, Dallas, TX; Monash University, Clayton, Victoria,
AUSTRALIA; Montana State University, Bozman, MT; Montran Corporation,
New York, NY; Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL; NASA/Langley Research
Center, Hampton, VA; Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; National
Central University, CHUNG-LI, TAIWAN; National Centre for Software
Technology, Juhu, Bombay, INDIA; National Cheng Kung University,
Tainan, TAIWAN; National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC,
TAIWAN; National Computer Board, Singapore, SINGAPORE; National
Institute for Higher Education, Castle Troy, Limerick, IRELAND;
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; National Tsing Hua
University, Hsin chu, TAIWAN; National Westminster Bank Plc, London,
UNITED KINGDOM; NetLabs, Inc., Los Altos, CA; New Jersey Institute of
Technology, Newark, NJ; New York University, New York, NY; Nijmegen
University, UCI, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS; Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corp., Yokosuka-shi, Kanaga, JAPAN; Nokia Telecommunications,
Espoo, FINLAND; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;
NorthWestern University, Evanston, IL; Northeast Parallel, Syracuse,
NY; Nova University--CCIS Dept., Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Ntl. Ctr. for
High-Performance, Taipei, TAIWAN; OGAWA Laboratory, Tokyo, JAPAN; OKI
Electric Industry Co., Warabi-Shi, Saitama, JAPAN; Open Horizon, Inc.,
San Mateo, CA; Office of Information Technology, McLean, VA; Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH; Open Environment Corporation, Cambridge, MA;
Open Systems Associates, Inc., Reston, VA; OpenConnect Systems, Inc.,
Dallas, TX; Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA; Oregon Graduate Institute
of S. & Tech., Beaverton, OR; Osterreichisches Forschungszenrum Seibe,
Seibersdorf, AUSTRIA; PeerLogic, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA; Peregrine Systems, Inc.,
Carlsbad, CA; Persetel (Pty) Ltd., Sandton, Johannesbur, SAUDI ARABIA;
Petrotechnical Open Software Corp., Houston, TX; Phillips Petroleum
Company, Bartlesville, OK; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Project
Athena, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Protek, Maidenhead, Berkshire, ENGLAND;
Pune Univ.: Ctr. for Advanced Computing, Pune, Maharas, INDIA; Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN; Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA; RRZ Uni Koln, Kiln, GERMANY; RUS-Rechenzentrum
Univ., Stuttgart, GERMANY; RWTH-Aachen, Lehrstuhl Informatik, Aachen,
GERMANY; Rabobank Nederland Facet ABC, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS;
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Ritsumeikan University,
Kyoto, JAPAN; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; Royal
College Maria Cristina de Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Es, SPAIN; S.I.A.
S.p.A., Milan, ITALY; SCO, Ministry of Defense, Singapore, Singapore,
SINGAPORE; SIGMA System, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; SIP M/S SIP DG/TI-SCS,
Rome, ITALY; Systems Partners, Inc., Orinda, CA; Schlumberger, Austin,
TX; Secom Information System Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; Sematech, Inc.,
Austin, TX; Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA; Shell
International, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS; Shell Oil Company, Houston,
TX; Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Paderborn, GERMANY; Societe
Int'l De Telecom Aeronautiqes, Valbonne, FRANCE; Software AG,
Darmstadt-Ebers, GERMANY; Software-Industrie Support Zentrum, Dortmund,
GERMANY; Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Stanford University, Stanford,
CA; State University of Ghent (Belgium), Zwijnaarde, BELGIUM; Stratus
Computer Inc., Marlboro, MA; Superconducting Super Collider Lab,
Dallas, TX; Sweden Post, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Sybase, Inc., Emeryville,
CA; Sycomore S.A., Paris la Defense, FRANCE; Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY; TRW, Inc., Carson, CA; Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA;
Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, TAIWAN; Technical University of
Budapest, Budapest, HUNGARY; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, ISRAEL; Telecom Finland Ltd., Helsinki, FINLAND;
Telecommunications Research Lab of AOTC, Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA;
Template Software, Inc., Herndon, VA; The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA;
the Computing Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN; The Mitre
Corporation, Bedford, MA; the Odissey Project c/o Applied Network
Technology, Guildford, Surrey, ENGLAND; The Royal Hong Kong Jockey
Club, Happy Valley, HONG KONG; The Santa Cruz Operation, Santa Cruz,
CA; The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX; The University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA; Tivoli Systems Inc.,
Austin, TX; Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, JAPAN; Transacr Corporation,
Pittsburgh, PA; UCA Berkeley-Computer Science Dept., Berkeley, CA; U
Texas Health Science Ctr--San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; U.R.A.C.O.M./
Univ. Paul Sabatir, Ramonville, CEDEX, FRANCE; UCLA Computer Science
Dept., Los Angeles, CA; US Postal Service, Washington, DC; USAF ESD,
Blackfriars, London, ENGLAND; Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich,
SWITZERLAND; Unisys Corporation, Roseville, MN; Univ. California
Extension Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; Univ. Central de Venezuela,
Miami, VENEZUELA; Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Univ.
of California-Academic Computing, Los Angeles, CA; Univ. of Chicago
Computer Science Dept., Chicago, IL; Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville,
Victoria, AUSTRALIA; Univ. of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW,
AUSTRALIA; Univ. of Western Sydney, MacArthur, Campbelltown, NSW,
AUSTRALIA; Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona, Barcelona, SPAIN;
Universitat Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, GERMANY; Universitat
Politecnica De Catlunya, Barcelona, SPAIN; Universite Catholique de
Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, BELGIUM; University College London, London,
ENGLAND; University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, GERMANY; University
of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; University of Auckland, Auckland,
NEW ZEALAND; University of Bilkent, Ankara, ENGLAND; University of
Bologna, Bologna, ITLAY; University of Bremen, Bremen, GERMANY;
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA; University of CA,
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,
CANADA; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, ENGLAND; University of Cape
Town, Rondebosch, SOUTH AFRICA; University of Dublin, Dublin, IRELAND;
University of Durham, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM; University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL; University of Guelph, Guelph, CANADA; University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
University of Indonesia, Jakarta, INDONESIA; University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA; University of Karlsruhe-Computing Center, Karlsruhe, GERMANY;
University of Lowell, CS Dept., Lowell, MA; University of Maryland,
College Park, MD; University of Massachusetts-CS Dept., Amherst, MA;
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; University of Milan, Milan,
ITALY; University of Minnesota, Morris, MN; University of Missouri-
Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH;
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ENGLAND;
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
University of Stellen Bosch, Stellen Bosch, SOUTH AFRICA; University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, SCOTLAND; University of Texas, TX; University of
Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN; University of Tromso, Tromso, NORWAY; University
of UTAH, CS Dept., Salt Lake City, UT; University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; University
of Waikato, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND; University of Washington, Seattle,
WA; University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Computer
Sciences Building, Madison, WI; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI; Uppsala University of Computing Center, Uppsala, SWEDEN;
VA Polytech Inst./State U. Computer Ctr., Blacksburg, VA; Veritas
Software Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Victoria University of
Wellington, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND; Volpe Nat'l Transportation Systems
Ctr., Cambridge, MA; Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS;
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA; Walker Interactive Systems, San
Francisco, CA; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worchester, MA; X
Consortium, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, CA;
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Yonsei University, Seoul,
KOREA; York University, North York, Ontario, CANADA.
The purpose of OSF is to undertake cooperative research,
experimentation and development activities concerning an open and
portable systems environment to allow users to more easily mix and
match computers and application software from different suppliers. OSF
will engage in all necessary activities to accomplish this objective
including: 1) Conducting research and experimentation to formulate and
facilitate the development of open systems software technologies; 2)
conducting research and experimentation to formulate and facilitate the
development of portable systems extension modules; 3) conducting
research and experimentation to formulate and to facilitate the
development of published specifications for functions required to
enable software portability, to encourage interoperability of systems
in a multi-vendor environment and to achieve appropriate levels of
consistency in user interface; 4) conducting research and
experimentation to formulate and to facilitate the development of
verification methods and tests for establishing compatibility with
relevant standards and the venture's specifications; 5) conducting
research and experimentation to formulate and to facilitate the
development of encoded forms of application software, not limited to
the machine architecture on which the software will execute; 6) the
collection, exchange and analysis of research information to achieve
the venture's objectives; 7) participation in the definition of open
systems standards; and 8) the production and marketing of the source
implementations of the base systems software technologies, or other
proprietary information, produced through the venture, including the
granting of licenses.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
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