Open Systems Visionary Mike Lambert Retires [LWN.net]

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Date:		Thu, 1 May 2003 00:03:31 -0400

Mike Lambert appointed first Fellow of The Open Group
Long time Open Standards advocate to take on new ambassadorial role

San Francisco, California / Reading, England  May 1st, 2003 
The Open Group announced at its quarterly Member Meeting in Austin, TX,
that Chief Technical Officer and Vice President Mike Lambert has been
appointed the first Fellow of The Open Group.

In this newly created role, Lambert will become a roving ambassador for The
Open Group, promoting the company's vision of Boundaryless Information Flow
around the world. Lambert has served as Chief Technology Officer with The
Open Group, and it's predecessor X/Open Company Limited, since the latter's
formation in 1987.

Allen Brown, President & CEO of The Open Group, said "Mike Lambert has
played a pivotal role in the standards world.  He was amongst the small
group of visionaries who saw the need for standards that all vendors would
support, but was not controlled by any one of them.  That idea, Open
Systems, so commonly accepted now, was revolutionary in the mid-80s."


About the Open Group
The Open Group, a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, has a
vision of Boundaryless Information Flow achieved through global
interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner. The Open Group's
mission is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow by
working with customers to capture, understand and address current and
emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices;
working with suppliers, consortia and standards bodies to develop consensus
and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and
open source technologies; offering a comprehensive set of services to
enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and developing and
operating the industry's premier certification service and encouraging
procurement of certified products. More information on our organization can
be found at www.opengroup.org.

Contact:  Maryann Karinch, m.Karinch@opengroup.org, 650-726-7020

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Open Systems Visionary Mike Lambert Retires

Posted May 1, 2003 23:49 UTC (Thu) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (2 responses)

"Open System" is not related to "Open Source", even less to Free Software. And the Open Group, we know, is an industry club.

Open Group is evolving

Posted May 2, 2003 4:52 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] (1 responses)

At the Open Group meeting in Austin, Texas earlier this week, I presented a detailed paper on the Open Source strategy I feel they should follow. This is work they paid for. They incorporated my points into their plan as I watched. They have already provided a staff member to the Linux Standard Base for a long time, and have donated 95% of the code in the LSB test suite. Yes, we all remember Motif, but after being surprised by the success of Open Source (lots of people were) they are now enthusiastic about it. Give them some time.

Thanks

Bruce

Open Group is evolving

Posted May 2, 2003 6:30 UTC (Fri) by ctg (guest, #3459) [Link]

Thanks for the info Bruce. That news sounds really cheering.

"Open Systems" and "Open Source" has a very important relationship. "Open Systems" (The Standards) have only been successful when backed by an Open Source implementation, I would argue, conversely, the Open Source applications/systems tend to implement standards/adhere to standards - they may not all be The Open Group's standards (RFCs for example), but the point is true.

I look forward to the closer relationship between "Open Systems" and "Open Source" - leading to good, patent free, affordable, implementable standards backed with open source/free software reference implementations.