ADVISORY/Intel Joins the OAGI; Microsoft Also to Participate in Tomorrow's B2B Vendor Challenge.Business Editors and High Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Nov. 2 (Thursday) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000 Media Event to Showcase Live Demonstrations of Open, XML-based Standards Required for Companies to Conduct Business over the Internet Intel and Microsoft will join over 20 leading technology providers to demonstrate actual real-time B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business solutions using open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced developed by the OAGI OAGI Open Applications Group, Inc. OAGI Open Applications Group Inc. in response to a challenge issued by Ford Motor Company, Lucent Technologies and Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. . The OAGI announced today Intel has joined the organization as a new member, and will participate in the group's first-ever B2B Vendor Challenge. The B2B Vendor Challenge will be held tomorrow, November 2, at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , and will begin at 8:00 AM. It is sponsored by the OAGI and hosted by Canopy International, and will feature three live e-business scenarios demonstrating how new, non-proprietary, XML-based standards can facilitate complex, extensive, multi-party e-business relationships in the automotive, aerospace and telecommunications industry. A briefing on the standards will be presented by the OAGI, as well as presentations by the participating companies and their technology partners. There will also be a networking buffet lunch buffet lunch n → buffet m (almuerzo) buffet lunch n → lunch m buffet lunch n → Buffet nt , and one-on-one and group interaction with all participants. About OAGI The Open Applications Group is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. content for eBusiness and Application Integration. It is the largest publisher of XML based XML Base is a W3C recommendation, that proposes a facility for defining base URIs for parts of XML documents. XML Base recommendation was adopted on 2001-06-27. External links
content for business software interoperability in the world. Open Applications Group, Inc. members have over 5 years of extensive experience in building this industry consensus based framework for business software application interoperability and have developed a repeatable process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content. About Canopy Canopy International offers consulting and integration services enabling companies to create open interoperability in e-business relationships. Canopy's e-business integration services help business-to-business companies maximize their investments in e-business technology. Canopy provides full lifecycle integration services -- including strategy, architecture, implementation and maintenance -- that result in scalable, industrial-strength connectivity solutions accelerating information flow through the entire value chain. Interested press are encouraged to register on-site at the Hyatt Regency between 8:00 and 9:00 AM tomorrow, November 2, 2000. For more information on OAGI, go to www.openapplications.org. For more information on Canopy International, go to www.canopyint.com. For online information: http://www.openapplications.org/challenge |
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