[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20611]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Open Applications Group, Inc. (``OAG'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 16, 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''), Open Applications 
Group, Inc. 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 objective 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(a) of 
the Act, the identities of the parties are: American Software, Atlanta, 
GA; CGI Systems Inc., Atlanta, GA; Coda, Harrogate, UK; Computer 
Associates, Lisle, IL; IBM Manufacturing Solutions Unit, Southbury, CT; 
Infinium Software, Hyannis, MA; J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, Co; 
Marcam Corporation, Weston, MA; NEC C&C Systems Group, Newton, MA; 
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA; PeopleSoft, Pleasanton, CA; 
QAD, Carpintera, CA; Siemens Nixdorf Informationsysyysteme, Munich, 
Germany; TSW International, Inc., Atlanta, GA.
    The OAG's area of planned activity is: (1) to promote connectivity 
and multiple source integration amongst enterprise software 
applications (as defined below) and (2) to encourage research and 
development of one or more standards to assist vendors in achieving 
connectivity in multiple-source integration of enterprise software 
applications. ``Enterprise software applications'' shall mean 
applications which automate the mission critical business processing 
within and across functional disciplines of an organization; the 
primary function of enterprise software applications is to support 
enterprise productivity rather than work group or personal 
productivity.
    Membership in the Open Application Group, Inc. will remail open and 
``OAG'' will file additional written notifications disclosing all 
changes in membership.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-20611 Filed 8-5-97; 8:45 am]
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