Boston-based consortium, The Open Group, has announced an industry-wide effort to promote the use of open standards to ensure interoperability among all vendors.
The Developer Declaration of Independence calls for the adoption and protection of open standards by corporations, government, organisations and individuals to ensure a fair and competitive marketplace.
The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that supports a vision of access to integrated information within and between enterprises through open standards and global interoperability.
The Open Group has published the Developer Declaration of Independence on its Web site and invited supporters to sign the document.
"The declaration is a call to action for software developers, business, industry, and all levels of government to promote and defend open standards against the threats posed by proprietary architectures," says Allen Brown, The Open Group president and CEO.
Buell Duncan, IBM ISV GM, says open standards are vital to integrating disparate systems across the enterprise and with external customers, suppliers and partners. "This end-to-end integration won`t be possible without multi-vendor interoperability through open standards."
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