OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

Domain	Definition
Computing	Open Software Foundation (OSF) A foundation created by nine computer vendors, (Apollo, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Bull, Nixdorf, Philips, Siemens and Hitachi) to promote "Open Computing". It is planned that common operating systems and interfaces, based on developments of Unix and the X Window System will be forthcoming for a wide range of different hardware architectures. OSF announced the release of the industry's first open operating system - OSF/1 on 23 October 1990. (1994-11-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Open Software Foundation was formerly an independent unit of what is nowadays joined with the X/Open Company in The Open Group.

Crosswords: OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

Language		Translations for "OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		OSF, Open Software Foundation. (various references)

Dutch		Open Systems Foundation, Open Software Foundation. (various references)

Finnish		OSF. (various references)

French		fondation OSF. (various references)

German		OSF. (various references)

Greek		Ιδρυμα ανοιχτών συστημάτων, Ιδρυμα ανοιχτού λογισμικού. (various references)

Italian		OSF, Open Systems Foundation, Open Software Foundation. (various references)

Pig Latin		openay oftwaresay oundationfay

Portuguese		OSF, fundação de sistemas abertos. (various references)

Spanish		fundación OSF, fundación "Open Systems Foundation". (various references)

Swedish		OSF, Open Software Foundation. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: open software fundation. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).