For Immediate Release:
MOTOROLA JOINS THE OPEN GROUP AS A PLATINUM SPONSOR
Industry leader to help drive new efforts in wireless and mobile technologies
LONDON, United Kingdom (10 April, 2000) - The Open Group™, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to enterprise interoperability, today announced that Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has joined The Open Group as a Platinum Sponsor. Motorola will contribute immediately to The Open Group as a co-founder of the Emerging Technologies Pillar and as a co-sponsor of the Mobile Commerce 2000 Conference being held in London from 10-14 April, 2000.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Motorola into The Open Group as a Platinum Sponsor and co-founder of the Emerging Technologies Pillar,” said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. “As an industry leader in wireless and mobile solutions, Motorola’s leadership will provide great value to The Open Group and to our new focus on wireless and mobile technologies.”
As a Platinum sponsor, Motorola will be joining The Open Group’s Governing Board and will help direct the overall strategy and vision of the organization. In addition to its commitment as a new leader of the organization, Motorola will help drive the focus and direction of the new Emerging Technologies Pillar. With initial work in the Emerging Technologies Pillar to focus on wireless and mobile technology, Motorola brings to The Open Group the expertise of an industry leader in delivering wireless and mobile technology and devices to the industry. The Pillar, co-founded with several other industry leaders, will initially focus on the interoperability of wireless and mobile technology and other new technologies and standards and their impact on the enterprise.
“We are pleased about the new direction of the Open Group as they expand into exciting new topics within the wireless arena,” said Michele Drgon, Director of Standards at Motorola. “Joining the group supports Motorola's overall strategies of defining and driving the development of breakthrough technology platforms while working with other industry leaders to unify standards that will enable a connected future.”
Motorola also joins Critical Path (NYSE: CPTH), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP), and Sun Microsystems (NYSE: SUNW) in sponsoring the Mobile Commerce 2000 Conference. The conference will hold two days of plenary sessions focusing on today’s wireless and mobile solutions and what the industry will have to accomplish together in order to create end-to-end wireless connectivity. For more information on the conference and its agenda, please visit http://www.opengroup.org.
Membership in The Open Group means joining a global network of buyers and suppliers who are developing frameworks, best business practices, and standards in key areas such as security, architecture, management, application integration, and mobile network computing. Through the power of its membership, The Open Group is leveraging open standards to enable enterprise interoperability.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1999 were $33.1 billion. http://www.motorola.com.
About The Open Group
The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium, is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information systems to lower the cost and risks associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise.
But “The mission of The Open Group is to deliver enterprise interoperability through the testing of conformance to Open Standards. More information on the organization can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.The Open Group is a trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries.
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