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IEEE
AND THE OPEN GROUP OKAY 'FREEBSD PROJECT' TO INCORPORATE MATERIAL
FROM
THE POSIX® STANDARD
Contact:
Eva
Kostelkova, The Open Group
+1 415 374-8280, e.kostelkova@opengroup.org
Karen
McCabe, IEEE Senior Marketing Manager
+1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
NJ AND SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 1 June 2004 The IEEE and The Open
Group have granted permission to the FreeBSD Project to incorporate
material from the joint IEEE 1003.1™ POSIX® standard
and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.
This step
will allow developers of the FreeBSD Platform to gain a better
understanding of how to write portable programs utilizing IEEE
1003.1, "Standard for Information Technology: Portable Operating
System Interface (POSIX)". The POSIX standard, which also
forms the core volume of Version 3 of The Open Group's Single
UNIX® Specification, defines a set of fundamental services
needed for the construction of portable application programs.
IEEE and The Open Group have granted permission for reuse of material
covering over 1400 interfaces from the standard including the
headers, system interfaces and utilities.
"Conforming
to operating systems standards, and particularly POSIX, has been
a high priority for us," said Jacques Vidrine, Security Officer
with the FreeBSD Project. "We want FreeBSD to be an excellent
target for portable applications, as well as a favored platform
for developing standards-compliant software. Thanks to the generosity
of the IEEE and The Open Group, we will be able to incorporate
the POSIX documentation, giving system and application developers
the accurate and complete information needed to create great software
and avoid portability pitfalls."
"We're
seeing a good uptake of the latest standard within the software
development community and are very pleased to assist community
efforts such as the FreeBSD Project," said Andrew Josey,
Director of Certification at The Open Group and Chair of the Austin
Group.
About the
FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is a widely used, high-performance network-centric open
source operating system derived from BSD 4.4 Lite. It was developed
and is maintained by a large team of individuals worldwide who
are referred to as the FreeBSD Project. FreeBSD is distributed
under the Berkeley open source license, which encourages broad
commercial and non-commercial re-use in both open and closed source
products. FreeBSD is used across a broad spectrum of products,
from embedded storage and network appliances to the foundation
for commercial workstation and server operating systems. Further
information about FreeBSD can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/
About
The Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium,
whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow will enable access
to integrated information within and between enterprises based
on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group
works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard
bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current
and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices;
to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve
and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to
offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational
efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry's premier
certification service, including UNIX certification. Further information
on The Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org/.
About the
IEEE Standards Association
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), a global standards-setting
body, develops consensus standards through an open process that
brings diverse parts of an industry together. It has a portfolio
of more than 870 completed standards and more than 400 in development.
IEEE-SA promotes the engineering process by creating, developing,
integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electro- and
information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity
and the profession. For further information on IEEE-SA visit:
http://standards.ieee.org/.
About the
IEEE
The IEEE has more than 380,000 members in approximately 150 countries.
Through its members, the organization is a leading authority on
areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications
to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE
produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical
and electronics engineering, computing and control technology
fields. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional information
about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org/.
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POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE. UNIX is a registered
trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All
other names or product names are the trademarks, service marks
or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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