A consortium of hardware manufacturers aimed at setting common standards for open systems, including operating systems and networks. The OSF has defined the Distributed Computing Environment.
A consortium of vendors, service providers and end-user companies formed to promote open computing. The OSF defines the standards for technologies such as DCE and produces source code which is then licensed by vendors. Some of the leading sponsor members of OSF include Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett Packard, IBM, Hitachi, Sun Microsystems, Bull and Transarc.
(standard, body) Consortium that originally developed Motif, OSF/1, DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and CDE (Common Desktop Environment). OSI
A consortium of hardware and software vendors collaborating to produce technologies for device-independent operation.
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The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was an organization founded in 1988 to create an open standard for an implementation of the Unix operating system. The organization was first proposed by Armando Stettner of Digital Equipment Corporation at a by-invitation-only meeting hosted by DEC for several UNIX vendors (called the Hamilton Group) to be an organization for joint development, mostly in response to the threat of the unilateral 'merged UNIX' efforts by AT&T and Sun Microsystems. The foundation's original members were Apollo Computers, Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nixdorf Computer, and Siemens AG, sometimes called the "Gang of Seven".