Editing 88open

{{Infobox company
| logo = 88open logo.png
| founder = [[Motorola]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1988}}
| name = 88open Consortium Ltd.
}}

'''88open''' was an industry standards group set up by [[Motorola]] in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their [[Motorola 88000]] [[RISC]] [[CPU]] systems.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4D4EAAAAMBAJ&q=88open+motorola&pg=PA31|title=RISC Chip Vendors Vie for Third-Party Support|last=Patton|first=Carole|date=May 30, 1988|work=InfoWorld}}</ref> At its peak, the spinoff 88open Consortium Ltd. had a staff of 30 people and over 50 supporters.<ref name="Alliance">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/alliancerevoluti00gome|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/alliancerevoluti00gome/page/124 124]|quote=88open.|title=The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry|last=Gomes-Casseres|first=Benjamin|date=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674016477|language=en}}</ref> The effort was largely a failure, at least in terms of attracting attention to the 88000 platform. The group was closed in favor of the [[AIM alliance]], and the 88000 platform was folded into AIM's [[PowerPC]].<ref name="Standards Wars">{{cite web |title=STANDARDS WARS: SITUATIONS, STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES |page=7 |url=http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/pdf/mar06/feature.pdf |publisher=ConsortiumInfo.org |date=March 2006 |author=Updegrove, Andrew |access-date=2009-06-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hQvhwk7xkwC&q=88open+powerpc&pg=PA330|title=Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure|last1=Kahin|first1=Brian|last2=Abbate|first2=Janet|author2-link=Janet Abbate|date=1995|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262112062|language=en}}</ref>

==Members==
Motorola provided 50% of the financial support for the consortium. Early members were [[Data General]], [[Convergent Technologies|Convergent]], and [[Tektronix]]. By May 1988, 28 companies had joined with 7 not releasing their names.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/usmarketforunix13722unse#page/74/mode/2up/search/data+general|title=US Market for UNIX 1989-1994|date=1989 |via=[[Internet Archive]]|access-date=2017-06-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/usmarketforunix13722unse#page/74/mode/2up/search/88open|title=US Market for UNIX 1989-1994|date=1989 |via=[[Internet Archive]]|access-date=2017-06-21}}</ref>

==Standards==
*Object Compatibility Standard (OCS): An 88open standard for compilers and linkers.

==See also==
*[[AIM alliance]]

== References ==
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