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Article: Open systems update: study aims to address corporate objections. (the Strategies for Open Systems study program at the FedUnix Conference)(Open Systems) (Field Report)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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Skepticism continues on the topic of open systems, at least among users at the recent FedUnix Conference in Washington, D.C.
Questions from those users included the following: "Why is the migration path still elusive?" and "Is a true open systems environment simply an unattainable goal?"
FedUnix, aimed at federal government users, offered many views on the current state of open systems. None of the presentations by users, vendors and consultants, however, provided a better view of the status of open systems than the results of a study undertaken by the Toronto-based consulting firm DMR Group.
Launched by the UniForum association, the X/Open ...