The Open Group: An Open Source Strategy for the Open Group

“The Open Group is faced with challenges and opportunities
regarding Open Source software. Foremost is the organization’s
responsibility to guide its members in use of, and participation
in, Open Source. Secondarily, as an organization we must catch up:
we couldn’t have known that Open Source would be this successful,
and it brings profound changes to our main areas of practice: Open
Systems and Standards. We must now fully integrate Open Source into
our operation. If not, it’s time to change the name of our
organization.

“First, it’s necessary to justify why we, or our members should
participate in Open Source at all. Any Open Source participation
must be grounded in a clearly documented benefit for the membership
in general. We don’t participate in Open Source for subjective
reasons. We do it only when we can show that our members will be
able to better operate their information systems facilities, will
be able to spend less, or get more functionality or better
service…”

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