The Open Group works towards enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability. It is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium that works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices.

Oracle is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.

InfoQ.com (Information Queue) is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and mini-books. InfoQ offers personalization features allowing you to customize the site and your RSS feed to the specific subset of content you are interested in.

Novell is a leading provider of infrastructure software. Our vision is helping people and technology to work as one. Our mission is to help customers reduce the cost, complexity and risk of computing on any platform.