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Press Releases
San Francisco, CA – April 9,
2004 – Responding to the DISA decision to transition
DII COE certification to the industry, The Open Group, the
industry’s premier certification authority, launched
the COE Linux Platform certification program.
Based on the DISA Cross Platform Compliance criteria for Linux
systems, the program provides assurance that conforming systems
provide services to COE applications software through conforming
APIs. The program also assures that the systems present a
specific appearance and behavior at the Human-Computer Interface
level, have demonstrated interoperability and data interchange
requirement, and meet a set of security requirements.
The certification program, which is based on industry best
practices, is overseen by The Open Group’s Grid Enterprise
Services (GES) Forum. The program benefits both customers
and vendors by:
- Providing assurance of Linux COE Platform conformance
and interoperability
- Matching the level of assurance to the needs of the particular
application
- Meeting the same levels of assurance as the former DISA
program
- Reducing the costs of getting certified.
"We are pleased that The Open Group introduced this program
as a way for the industry to certify conformance of their
Linux platforms with the COE specification,” said Dawn
Meyerriecks, Principal Director for GIG Enterprise Services,
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), US Department of
Defense. “This will reduce testing costs and allow the
military to procure Linux systems with the confidence that
they will support warfighters’ needs."
“Conformance to standards is critical for enabling secure
and reliable access to integrated information across systems,
wherever and whenever it is needed,” noted Allen Brown,
President and CEO of The Open Group. “The new Linux
COE Platform certification program provides a choice for procurement
professionals to select the right tool for a particular problem
without having to sacrifice assurance of conformance and interoperability.”
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® System certification.
Boundaryless Information Flow is a
trademark, and UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open
Group in the U.S. and other countries.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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