In March 1994 CDE became the responsibility of the " new OSF ", a merger of the Open Software Foundation and Unix International ;

As part of this agreement, Sun and AT & T became OSF sponsor members, OSF submitted Motif to the X / Open Consortium for certification and branding and Novell passed control and licensing of the UNIX trademark to the X / Open Consortium.

Among those roles, in 2011 it became the home for the Black Swan Lab, which will develop new work by major American playwrights as well as early career writers under the direction of OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch, OSF Dramaturg Lue Douthit, and Producer Sarah Rasmusen.

OSF and its projects eventually became part of The Open Group, which released DCE 1. 2. 2 under a free software license ( the LGPL ) on 12 January 2005.

In 2003, Hendrik ten Hoeve became senator for the OSF.

A universally unique identifier ( UUID ) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ).

As part of the founding of the organization, the AIX operating system was provided by IBM and was intended to be passed-through to the member companies of OSF.

As part of its commitment to the OSF, Armando Stettner went to DEC's Cambridge Research Labs to work on the port of OSF / 1 to DEC's RISC-based DECstation 3100 workstation.

The first play in the series, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, was presented as part of the 2010 season and proved so popular that for the first time in OSF history, was expanded to include four extra performances.

The 2012 season includes All the Way and Party People, bringing to four the number of plays written and produced as part of the cycle at OSF.

OSF is supported in part by corporate and individual donors through annual non-voting memberships at various levels, planned giving, or direct support of specific plays.

Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) came about to a large degree as part of the Unix wars of the 1980s.

As part of the formation of OSF, various members contributed many of their ongoing research projects as well as their commercial products.

The following month, a group of competitors to AT & T and Sun formed the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ), as a counter to their collaborative efforts.

They formed the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1988.

In March 1993 the major participants in UI and OSF formed the Common Open Software Environment ( COSE ) alliance, effectively marking the end of the most significant era of the Unix wars.

Mach received a major boost in visibility when the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) announced they would be hosting future versions of OSF / 1 on Mach 2. 5, and were investigating Mach 3 as well.

Unix International ( UI ) merged into Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1994 only to merge with X / Open to form The Open Group in 1996.

In 1988, during the so-called " Unix wars ", DEC joined with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others to form the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) to develop a version of Unix.

In 1994, after AT & T had sold UNIX System V to Novell and the rival Unix International consortium had disbanded, the Open Software Foundation ceased funding of research and development of OSF / 1.

In 1995, starting with release 3. 2, DEC renamed OSF / 1 AXP to Digital UNIX to reflect its conformance with the X / Open Single UNIX Specification.

This caused many of AT & T's other licensees of UNIX System V to become concerned that this would put Sun in an advantaged position, and it ultimately led to Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, and others forming the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1988.

The COSE initiative in 1993 can be considered to be the first unification step and the merger of the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) and X / Open in 1996 as the ultimate step in the end of those skirmishes.

The Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) was a not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 under the U. S. National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to create an open standard for an implementation of the UNIX operating system.

One of the Seven Principles was declaration of an " Open Process " whereby OSF staff would create Request for Proposals for source technologies to be selected by OSF, in a vendor neutral process.

Technologies which were produced primarily by OSF included ODE, the Open Development Environment-a flexible development, build and source control environment ; TET, the Test Environment Toolkit-an open framework for building and executing automated test cases ; and the operating system OSF / 1 MK from the OSF Research Institute based on the Mach3. 0 microkernel.

TET was produced as a result of collaboration between OSF, UNIX International and the X / Open Consortium.

In May, the Common Open Software Environment ( COSE ) initiative was announced by the major players in the UNIX world from both the UI and OSF camps: Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, Unix System Laboratories, and the Santa Cruz Operation.

In February 1996 OSF merged with X / Open to become The Open Group.

Again, the UEG ( by now the Ultrix Engineering Group ) worked at making the new OSF / 1-based Digital Unix run well on DEC hardware, with the reliability and maintainability that people came to expect from DEC operating systems.

Motif was created by the Open Software Foundation ( and was sometimes even called OSF / Motif ), which has now been subsumed by The Open Group.

In 1996, X / Open and the new OSF merged to form the Open Group.

OSF is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for the not-for-profit theatre world, and a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America.

The Independent Senate Group (, OSF ) is a parliamentary party in the Dutch Senate with one senator, representing several provincial parties.

He has been played by Terence Morgan ( 1948 ), Nicholas Jones ( 1970 ), Nathaniel Parker ( 1990 ), Hugh Bonneville ( 1992 RSC Production ), Michael Maloney ( 1996 ), Liev Schreiber ( 2000 ), Tanner Spear ( 2008 ), Edward Bennett ( 2009 RSC ), and David DeSantos ( 2010 OSF ).

Apple never ported A / UX to PowerPC Macintoshes ( though A / UX 4. 0 was rumored to have been an OSF / 1 adaptation ), and the company all but abandoned it by 1996, preferring to use a slightly modified version of IBM ’ s AIX system on their mid-90s Apple Network Servers.

MkLinux is an open source computer operating system started by the OSF Research Institute and Apple Computer in February 1996 to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and Macintosh computers.

When Woronicz left in 1996, OSF recruited Libby Appel from the highly respected Indiana Repertory Theatre, and a guest director at OSF from 1988 to 1991, as artistic director.

With the introduction of the ESA / 390 architecture, AIX / 370 was replaced by AIX / ESA in 1991, which was based on OSF / 1, and also ran on the System / 390 platform.

** LVM ( Logical Volume Manager ) was incorporated into OSF / 1, and in 1995 for HP-UX, and the Linux LVM implementation is similar to the HP-UX LVM implementation.

Operating systems that supported Alpha included OpenVMS ( previously known as OpenVMS AXP ), Tru64 UNIX ( previously known as DEC OSF / 1 AXP and Digital UNIX ), Windows NT ( until 4. 0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1 ), GNU / Linux ( Debian GNU / Linux, Gentoo Linux and Red Hat Linux ), BSD UNIX ( NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD up to 6. x ), as well as the L4Ka :: Pistachio kernel.

Other Unix-like systems working on the Mach microkernel include OSF / 1, Lites, and MkLinux.

The KSR systems ran a specially customized version of the OSF / 1 operating system, a Unix variant, with programs compiled by a KSR-specific port of the Greenhills C and FORTRAN compilers.

Several operating systems have since been constructed using this method, known as co-location, among them Lites, MkLinux, OSF / 1 and NeXTSTEP / OPENSTEP / Mac OS X.

Provided OSF / Motif.

As its original name suggests, Tru64 UNIX is based on the OSF / 1 operating system.

Dubbed OSF / 1, the aim was to compete with System V Release 4 from AT & T and Sun Microsystems, and it has been argued that a primary goal was for the operating system to be free of AT & T intellectual property.

The fact that OSF / 1 was one of the first operating systems to use the Mach kernel is cited as support of this assertion.

Digital also strongly promoted OSF / 1 for real-time applications, and with traditional UNIX implementations at the time providing poor real-time support at best, the real-time and multi-threading support was heavily dependent on the Mach kernel.

OSF / 1 was envisaged to be the third major branch of the Unix family tree, after System V and BSD.

DEC's original release of OSF / 1 ( OSF / 1 Release 1. 0 ) was in January 1992 for their line of MIPS-based DECstation workstations, however this was never a fully supported product and was cancelled before the end of the year.