CI Labs and IntelligentPad Consortium Work to Provide Worldwide Component Software Interoperability; Associations Exchange Memberships.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995--Insuring interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. between their respective component-based architectures -- OpenDoc(tm) and IntelligentPad(tm) -- Component Integration Laboratories (project) Component Integration Laboratories - (CIL) An effort to create a common framework for interoperability between application programs on desktop platforms, formed by Apple Computer, Inc., IBM, Novell, Oracle, Taligent, WordPerfect and Xerox. , Inc. (CI Labs) and IntelligentPad Consortium (IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. ) of Japan announced today that their organizations have exchanged memberships. CI Labs and IPC have formed this alliance to advance a global component software model. CI Labs is the US-based vendor-neutral association promoting the OpenDoc industry standard. IPC is an open, vendor-neutral, non-profit, privately funded association dedicated to the promotion, research and development of IntelligentPad, a component-based media architecture. Major international corporations including Hitachi Software Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Vision Corporation and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation are supporting members. The membership exchange comes at a time when the industry is recognizing the need for an international open component standard. The associations will now have improved information access enabling their complimentary technologies to work towards common interests. "Technology is creating a global marketplace, making it imperative that software architectures interoperate See interoperable. ," said John Cheuck, director, global planning and promotions of IPC. "The membership exchange between the IPC and CI Labs is a step towards making this a reality." In addition to the membership exchange, CI Labs has received increasing global support for OpenDoc including the concurrent announcement of cooperation between CI Labs and the Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG (Open Architecture Development Group) An organization founded by IBM Japan in 1991 to promote PC standards in Japan. See DOS/V. ) of Japan. "We have seen increasing support internationally for OpenDoc," stated Jed Harris Jed Harris (born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz in Lviv, Austria-Hungary) (February 25, 1900 - November 15, 1979) was a renowned Austrian-American theater producer and director, and writer of film. , president of CI Labs. "The membership exchange with IPC is another example of worldwide industry leaders joining the move to an open component model." INTELLIGENTPAD CONSORTIUM IPC is an international consortium founded in Japan that promotes the IntelligentPad technology. It is a vendor-neutral, non-profit, privately funded organization with over 50 members including companies, institutes and prominent individuals from Japan and worldwide. IntelligentPad is a cross-platform media architecture that provides end users with a powerful visual interface to the world of software components. The IPC is committed to contributing to the global software society with the IntelligentPad technology. COMPONENT INTEGRATION LABORATORIES CI Labs is a vendor-neutral industry association promoting software integration and component software. CI Labs' OpenDoc component software architecture provides software integration that enables distributed, cross-platform component software and brings a new level of computing power to users. Apple Computer, Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation and Novell, Inc. are developing OpenDoc implementations for Macintosh, OS/2 and Windows platforms, respectively. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: CI Labs acknowledges all trademarks as belonging to their respective owners. -0- For more information: Ken Pappas - OpenDoc Hotline Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. (415) 827-7078 Component Integration Laboratories, Inc. P.O. Box 61747 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 phone: 408/864-0300 fax: 408/864-0380 email: info@cilabs.org HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. ://www.cilabs.org/ IntelligentPad Consortium (HQ) TechnoPark 1-1-10 Shimonopporo Sapporo 004 Japan phone: 81-11-807-6032 fax: 81-11-807-6034 email: ipc-info@sec.or.jp CONTACT: Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations, Inc. Ken Pappas, 415/827-7078 (OpenDoc Hotline) |
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