[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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, [[Page 32372]] 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] BILLING CODE 4410-11-M