A major initiative of The Open Group is to offer a number of important technologies and services that are the result of a collaborative effort between IT customers and suppliers.
Collaboration offers the benefits of shared costs and technology, and less duplication of effort.
As a member, you can utilize these efforts to benefit your own organization. From the protocol stack to the Web browser, the Internet has demonstrated repeatedly that the shortest path to real interoperability is a widely available reference implementation. It's to the advantage of both buyers and suppliers to use The Open Group's collaborative development processes to produce the next generation of scalable, secure interoperability technology that customers so urgently need. Through collaborative development, The Open Group works with companies to bring resources together to develop new open systems technologies. Through licensing arrangements with The Open Group, this developed technology, along with additional services to support rapid adoption, is made available to both development partners and the wider industry.