[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32371-32372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15504]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; the Open Group, L.L.C.

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 21, 1997, pursuant to 
Sec. 6(a) of the National cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), The Open Group, L.L.C. 
(``TOG'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities 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 damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Sec. 6(b) of 
the Act, the identities of the Executive Sponsors of TOG, which are its 
voting members and which each appoint a representative to the TOG 
Governing Board, are: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA; 
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JAPAN; Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, 
CA; Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; International Business Machines 
Corporation, Armonk, NY; NCR Corporation, West Columbia, SC; Novell, 
Inc., Provo, UT; Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Munich, GERMANY; 
and SunSoft, Inc., Mountain View, CA. The identities of the 
Participating Sponsors of TOG, which, collectively, are entitled to 
appoint one representative to the TOG Governing Board are as follows: 
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA; and The Santa Cruz 
Operation, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA.
    The identities of the Associate members of TOG, which, by virtue of 
such status are not entitled to vote or appoint representatives, are as 
follows: CCTA, Norwich, ENGLAND; Commission of European Communities, 
Brussels, BELGIUM; Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH; Groupe Bull, 
Billerica, MA; HP/Apollo, Cupertino, CA; IBM Corp., Austin, TX; Siemens 
Nisdorf Information Systems, Paderborn, GERMANY; The Mitre Corp., 
Bedford, MA; Finsiel S.P.A., Rome, ITALY; Sunsoft, Inc., Mountain View, 
CA; Software AG, Darmstadt, GERMANY; Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain 
View, CA; S.I.A. S.P.A., Milano, ITALY; Hitachi, LTD., Kanagawa-Ken, 
JAPAN; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; NASA/Goddard Space Flight 
Center, Greenbelt, MD; Shell International, Rijswijk, NETHERLANDS; 
Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA; CSK Corp., Shinjuko-Ku, JAPAN; 
Innenministerium Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, GERMANY; Boeing 
Information Services, Seattle, WA; Vople National Transportation 
Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; CCL/ITRI, Chutung, Hsinchu, TAIWAN; The 
Santa Cruz Operation, Santa Cruz, CA; British Telecommunication Public 
Ltd., Co., Ipswich, ENGLAND; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 
MD; Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA; Internal Revenue Service, Beckley, 
WV; NCR Corp., Dayton, OH; Gradient Technologies, Inc., Marlbourough, 
MA; Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia, NY; Department 
of Defense-Fort Meade, Fort Meade, MD; Barclay Bank PLC, Knutsford, 
Cheshire, ENGLAND; Unilever PLC, London, ENGLAND; Tandem Computers, 
Cupertino, CA; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Tokyo, JAPAN; Petrotechnical 
Open Software Corp., Houston, TX; Just Systems Corp., Tokushima-Ken, 
JAPAN; J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc., New York, NY; Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Migros Genossenschafts Bund, 
Zurich, SWITZERLAND; PRC Inc., Mclean, VA; Centre Univ., Luxembourg, 
LUXEMBOURG; Etis, Brussels, BELGIUM; Veritas Software Corp., Mountain 
View, CA; Legent Corp., Herndon, VA; Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich, 
SWITZERLAND; Bundesamt Fur Informatik, Bern, SWITZERLAND; Merrill Lynch 
and Co., Inc., New York, NY; Department of Social Security ITSA, Lancs, 
ENGLAND; Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA; Nippon Telegraph, 
Yokosuka-Shi, JAPAN; Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; CSIRO, 
Division of Information Technology, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Novell, Inc., 
San Jose, CA; The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley, HONG KONG; 
National Health Service, Birmingham, U.K.; Institute for Defense 
Analyses, Alexandria, VA; Applied Systems Engineering, Lancashire, 
U.K.; Guide International, Duncan, CA; Hungary Prime Minister's Office, 
Budapest, HUNGARY; Kapsch Aktiengessellschaft, Vienna, AUSTRIA; 
Ministerie Van Financien, Apeldoorn, NETHERLANDS; Apple Computer, 
Cupertino, CA; Elf Aquitaine, Paris, FRANCE; Bull SA, Les Clayes Sous-
Bois, FRANCE; Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, Bucks, ENGLAND; 
The Post Office, Chesterfield, U.K.; Object Management Group, 
Framingham, MA; Hitachi Data Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA; Credit 
Lyonnais, Saint Maurice, FRANCE; INRIA, Le Chesnay, FRANCE; Phillips 
Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, OK; NASA/Langley Research Center, Hampton, 
VA; 3M Corp., St. Paul, MN; Michigan Department of Transportation, 
Lansing, MI; Ministerie Van Verkeer, Delft, NETHERLANDS; National 
Computerization Agency, Gyeonggi-Do, KOREA; Deutsche Bundespost 
Telekom, Darmstadt, GERMANY; Intellisoft Corp., Acton, MA; Sycomore 
S.A., Paris La Defense, FRANCE; NATO CIS Agency, Brussels, BELGIUM; 
Royal PTT Netherlands NV (KPN), Groningen,

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NETHERLANDS; Secom Information System Co., Ltd., Mitaka-Ski, Tokyo, 
JAPAN; Ministry of Defence Dgits, Swindon, ENGLAND; Statskonsult, Oslo, 
NORWAY; Hughes Applied Information Systems, Landover, MD; Sweden Post, 
Stockholm, SWEDEN; Telecom Finland Ltd., Helsinki, FINLAND; Mercury 
Communications Ltd., London, ENGLAND; Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX; 
Centre for Open Systems, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA; Open Horizon, Inc., 
South San Francisco, CA; Nippon Steel Corp., Kanagawa, JAPAN; IBM 
Corporation Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN; OKI Electronic Industry Co., Ltd., 
Warabi-Shi, JAPAN; Fujitsu Limited, Nakahara-Ku, JAPAN; Naval Research 
Laboratory, Washington, DC; Dynamic Software AB-Dynasoft, Stockholm, 
SWEDEN; QA Training Limited, Gloucestershire, U.K.; Juas, Tokyo, JAPAN; 
Market Vision, Derring, NH; Enterprise Solutions Ltd., Westlake 
Village, CA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Groupe 
Riche, Hurst, Reading, U.K.; Nihon Unisys, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; NTT Data 
Communications Systems Corp., Tokyo, JAPAN; Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, 
JAPAN; Lexis-Nexis, Dayton, OH; Open System Solutions GMBH, Munchen, 
GERMANY; Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN; Mitsubishi 
Corp., Chiyoda-Ku, JAPAN; North Carolina Office of the State, Raleigh, 
NC; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; Stanford University, ITSS, 
Stanford, CA; University of Western Sydney, Kingswood, AUSTRALIA; 
Candle Corp., Santa Monica, CA; Computerware-Ecosystems Business Group, 
Campbell, CA; Telefonica I&D Madrid, SPAIN; Ohio State University, 
Columbus, OH; Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota, JAPAN; British Columbia Hydro 
and Power, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA; Den Norske Bank, 
Bergen, NORWAY; Starquest Software, Inc., Berkeley, CA; NASA/Ames 
Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; Technical University of Budapest, 
Budapest, HUNGARY; Doxa Informatique, Versailles, FRANCE; Lasermoon 
Limited, Wickham, U.K.; Financial Services Technology Consortium, 
Boston, MA; UNIXPROS, Inc., Eatontown, NJ; Visa International, San 
Francisco, CA; Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale, CA; Isogon Corp., New York, NY; 
Centre Informatique du Plan et des; Tunis, TUNISIA; Instruction Set, 
Inc., Framingham, MA; Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., Pasadena, CA; 
Deloitte & Touche, Los Angeles, CA; Kredietbank N.V., Brussels, 
BELGIUM; Home Office Police Department, London, ENGLAND; European 
Security Forum, London, U.K.; Ematek Informatik GMBH, Cologne, GERMANY; 
ISSC Inc., (Subsidiary of IBM), Austin, TX; MB&T Migration, Beratung & 
Training GMBH, Iserlohn-Letmathe, GERMANY; Openit Data AB, Taby, 
SWEDEN; The Sakura Bank, Ltd., Chiyoda-Ku, JAPAN; Oki Electric Industry 
Co., Ltd., Warabi-Shi, JAPAN; Isogon Corp., New York, NY; Mitsui & Co., 
Ltd., Chiyoda-Ku, JAPAN; DISA Center for Standards, Reston, VA; Tivoli 
Systems Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC; AGIP SPA, San Donato, ITALY; 
Australian Department of Defence, Canberra, AUSTRALIA; Los Alamos 
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; Telecom Networks Engineering, 
Tunis, TUNISIA; Triteal Corp., Carlsbad, CA; Isd Projektmanagement 
GMBH, Landshut, GERMANY; LC Systems Engineering AG, Horn, SWITZERLAND; 
Santix Software GMBH, Unterschleisgshein, GERMANY; Collogia 
Unternehmensberatung GMBH, Koln, GERMANY; Communications Electronics 
Security, Cheltenham, U.K.; Kadaster Igt, Apeldoorn, NETHERLANDS; Rice 
University, Houston, TX; WM-DATA Communications AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; 
Ministry of Defence, Den Haag, NETHERLANDS; Pohang University of 
Science & Technology, Pohang, KOREA; Zwister Leven, Amsterdam, 
NETHERLANDS; Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Portsmouth, NH; Chase 
Manhattan Bank, New York, NY; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Cray 
Research, Inc., Eagan, MN; Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ; Open 
Environment Corp., Boston, MA; Open Environment Corporation-Europe, 
Twyford, U.K.; Softway Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Bull K.K., 
Minato-Ku, JAPAN; VRIJ UIT B.V., Hoofddorp, NETHERLANDS; Prudential 
Insurance Company, Roseland, NJ; Association for Interactive Media, 
Washington, DC; Mastercard International Inc., Purchase, NY; Volvo Data 
AB, Goteborg, SWEDEN; Astec, Inc., Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, JAPAN; Clinicomp 
International, San Diego, CA; Hewlett-Packard Company, Colorado 
Springs, CO; Hummingbird Communications, Ltd., North York, Ontario, 
CANADA; IBM Corp., Austin, TX; Jupiter Systems, San Leandro, CA; 
Netmanage Inc., San Diego, CA; Netmanage Inc., Cupertino, CA; Seaweed 
Systems Inc., Oakland, CA; Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA; 
Visicom, San Diego, CA; Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA; X 
Inside, Denver, CO; Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH; Insignia 
Solutions, High Wycombe, Bucks, U.K.; Metro Link Incorporated, Fort 
Lauderdale, FL; Global Knowledge Network, Belgium NV/SA, Brussels, 
BELGIUM; Dascom Incorporated, Santa Cruz, CA; Computer Resource 
Management Ltd., Newmarket, U.K.; Sunsoft, Inc., Mountain View, CA; 
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA; Chalmers University of Technology, 
Guteborg, SWEDEN; Openvision, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Barco Chromatics, 
Tuchker, GA; Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Munich, GERMANY; 
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, JAPAN; Caterpillar, Inc., East 
Peoria, IL; Citicorp International Communications, Reston, VA; 
Information Communication Institute of Singapore, Singapore, SINGAPORE.
    TOG's area of planned activity is to engage in the life cycle of 
open systems research and development activities, including gathering 
end user and manufacturer requirements, technology research, open 
systems product planning, facilitating the collaborative production of 
open systems reference technologies, specifications and test suites, 
furnishing software support and educational services, and engaging in 
product marketing and branding. TOG will promote the formulation, 
development and deployment of open systems technology required to 
achieve software portability, to encourage interoperability of systems 
in a multi-vendor environment, and to achieve appropriate levels of 
consistency in user interface.
    Membership in TOG will remain open and TOG will file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-15504 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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