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Innovation and research activities include the hosting of open source
and other collaborative projects. In addition, The Open Group research
and innovation team can
provide technical research and consulting, with a particular focus on technology transference from research to
practical implementation.
Success Stories: The Open Manageability Project was established to
produce an open source implementation of the WBEM/CIM standards. The
Open Group is hosting this project and provides project management,
technical resources and infrastructure services. Additionally, we provide
resources to the development activity and facilitate the operation of
various collaborative bodies to oversee and control the project.
The Open Group provides the following project management and
operational services for projects involving open source implementations of open
standards:
- Formation of a project steering committee, including
establishment of the rights and responsibilities of members, rules and
bylaws.
- Establishment of an architecture project team.
- Provision of a project manager with responsibilities for the project
plan and implementation strategy, coordination, liaison, technical
direction, leadership.
- Ongoing management and oversight of the committee(s) and the architecture
team.
- Conflict resolution.
- Facilitation of market awareness and adoption criteria.
The Open Group can provide technical resources to handle:
- The master source,
- Access control,
- Distributions and problem handling,
- Monitoring,
- Testing,
- Development of and adherence to development guidelines, and
- Technical documentation.
The Open Group can also provide infrastructure services, which include:
- Meeting and teleconference management,
- Email and web access, web site publishing and maintenance,
- Online discussion groups,
- Public relations and press release coordination,
- Online document review and comment system. (see standards)
These infrastructure services are similar to those offered to consortia
to support consortia activities (see management
services for detail).
Using the model applied to open source projects, The Open Group provides support for other collaborative projects. This support
has taken
various forms, as The Open Group has participated in and
coordinated several EEC funded
projects including TIE and ALPINE.
Through its Research and Innovation Group, The Open Group provides a
consulting and technology transfer resource specializing in commercial
and government customers use of government-sponsored advanced
technologies. The Open Group offers consultation in
establishing and managing research projects to meet client needs.
The Open Group's experienced engineers have assisted
clients with:
- Quality of Service (QoS) requirements definition,
- Joint design and trade-off studies,
- Advanced development and pre-production test beds,
- Acquisition and integration of commercial QoS related
software, and
- Development of QoS software required for effective
end- to- end system QoS design and implementation.
For more information and background click here.
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