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Corporation for Open Systems

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An R&D consortium, founded in 1986, that was dedicated to assuring acceptance of worldwide standards. It closed 10 years later.


Corporation for Open Systems - (COS) An international consortium of computer users and vendors set up to provide ways of testing OSI implementations.

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Department of Commerce, as an executive committee member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Open Systems and member of boards of both the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA) and International SEMATECH.
He served with the Executive Office of the President's Advisory Committee on Information Networks; was chairman of the Corporation for Open Systems, promoting worldwide computer and telephone networking standards; was a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Technology Board; and currently is on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of MIT.
The Unisys software has proven its interoperability in extensive conformance testing as well as an ongoing pilot project among five large utility companies managed by the Corporation for Open Systems.
 
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