[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 31, 1994)] [Unknown Section] [Page 0] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 94-21428] [[Page Unknown]] [Federal Register: August 31, 1994] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. [FR Doc. 94-21428 Filed 8-30-94; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-01-M