The UK’s own mini X/Open – a group of hardware manufacturers known as CUE, or Common Unix Environment – are to demonstrate conformance to the X/Open and GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnect Profile at a conference and exhibition scheduled for June 22 at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in Central London. The demonstation, said by the group to be the first of its kind, is the result of 12 months’ collaboration between CUE members, and according to CUE chairman Eddie Bleasdale shows that specialist manufacturers are able to implement the emerging standards for Open Systems faster than the multi-nationals. Founded last June, CUE numbers Integrated Micro Products, ITL, Spider Systems, Lynwood Scientific and SyFA Data Systems among its members, and they will demonstrate networking of their individual X/Open Common Application Environment-conformant systems using GOSIP. ahe conference, free for managers and executives responsible for the implementation of computing stategies, will include presentations on moving from proprietary to open systems computing, with a keynote speech from Kenneth Warren, who is chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Information Technology.
