Hewlett-Packard Co’s John Doyle, director of the Open Software Foundation has visited Japan to drum up support for the Foundation’s planned open Unix standard, reports Newsbytes Japan – but from most accounts his visit was not received with overwhelming enthusiasm: Doyle told reporters, We have already raised $90m and we want more sponsors, including Japanese PC makers, to join the Foundation; we have sent to about 300 Japanese PC makers letters asking for their participation; Yukio Mizuno, managing director of NEC Corp, admits talking with Doyle, but he is noncommittal – I only listened to him, he says; and Fujitsu is reported to have refused Doyle’s visit, but has publicly stated that standardization of Unix is important and that it is considering joining the Open Software Foundation, while Hitachi Ltd had no comment.
