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.

The network of Open Society Foundations or OSF ( named Open Society Institute or OSI until 2011 ), is a grantmaking operation started by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.

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.

MkLinux started as a project sponsored by Apple Computer and OSF Research Institute, to get " Linux on Mach " ported to the Macintosh computer and for Apple to explore alternative kernel technologies on the Mac platform.

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

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.

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.

This new OS was produced in a little more than a year's time and incorporated technology from Carnegie Mellon University: the Mach 2. 5 microkernel ; from IBM, the journaled file system as well as commands and libraries ; from SecureWare secure core components ; from BSD the networking stack ; and a new virtual memory management system invented at OSF.

The effort was spearheaded by Brett Halle at Apple and development split between Michael Burg ( device drivers and distribution ) at Apple in Cupertino, California, and Nick Stephen ( Mach porting & development ) at the OSF in Grenoble, France.

In the early 1990s, several Unix R & D systems were ported to the PA-RISC platform, including several attempts of OSF / 1, various Mach ports and systems that combined parts of Mach with other systems ( MkLinux, Mach 4 / Lites ).

Variants of OSF / 1 AD were used on several such systems, including the Intel Paragon XP / S and ASCI Red, Convex Exemplar SPP-1200 ( as SPP-UX ) and the Hitachi SR2201 ( as HI-UX MPP ).

OSF released several development ' snapshots ' of ANDF, but it was never released commercially by OSF or any of its members.

In the same year, Software UNO ( www. uno. com ) offered a commercial port for OWL 2. 0, to several platforms: AIX 3. 2. 5, DEC OSF / 1 AXP, HP-UX 9. 03, Linux 1. 2, Solaris 2. x, Sun OS 4. 1. x, and SVR4 fox x86, it was called WM_MOTIF.

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

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.

However other Unix vendors licensed the operating system to include various components of OSF / 1 in their products.

All proceeds raised from Tiger Tunes and other events throughout the year are then given by OSF for student scholarships.

OSF has expanded the activities of the Soros Foundations network to other areas of the world where the transition to democracy is of particular concern.

According to the 2009 OSF expenditures report, Africa region ( outside of the South Africa ) was the key area of funded activities: about $ 51, 000, 000 were spent on civil society support, human rights, education, justice, media, public health, transparency, and other activities there.

As with other OSF offerings, ANDF was specified through an open selection process.

After OSF stopped working on ANDF, development continued at other organizations.

By integrating security, RPC and other distributed services on a single " official " distributed computing environment, OSF could offer a major advantage over SVR4, allowing any DCE-supporting system ( namely OSF / 1 ) to interoperate in a larger network.

The OSF matches the software database of each airport to its local area terrain, and implements software to facilitate local procedures, among other things.

SPECTRA fuses its data with data coming from the other aircraft sensors ( OSF, radar ) and suggests counter-measures to the pilot.

The result of these analyses, is combined with the data coming from the other systems of the Rafale aircraft ( RBE2 radar and OSF ) in order to provide a complete tactical situation to the pilot.

The SRM console was initially designed to boot DEC's OSF / 1 AXP ( later called Digital UNIX and finally Tru64 UNIX ) and OpenVMS operating systems, although various other operating systems ( such as Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, for example ) were also written to boot from the SRM console.

OSF solicited the proposals for various technologies, including the remote procedure call ( RPC ) system and the remote file access protocol.

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.

The OSF / 1 copyright appears in the list of technologies used in the iPhone.

Other technologies developed by OSF include Motif and Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ), respectively a widget toolkit and package of distributed network computing technologies.

Filling out the initial ( and what turned out to be final ) five technologies from OSF were DME, the Distributed Management Environment and ANDF, the Architecturally Neutral Distribution Format.

All the OSF technologies had corresponding manuals and supporting publications produced almost exclusively by the staff at OSF and published by Prentice-Hall.

OSF issued a Request for Technology for architecture-neutral software distribution technologies in April, 1989.

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.

Previously, Tru64 UNIX was a product of Compaq, and before that, Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ), where it was known as Digital UNIX ( formerly DEC OSF / 1 AXP ).

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.

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.

DEC ported OSF / 1 to their new Alpha AXP platform ( as DEC OSF / 1 AXP ), and this was the first version ( Release 1. 2 ) of what is most commonly referred to as OSF / 1.

DEC OSF / 1 AXP Release 1. 2 was shipped on March 1993.

OSF / 1 AXP was a full 64-bit operating system and the native UNIX implementation for the Alpha architecture.

From OSF / 1 AXP V2. 0 onwards, UNIX System V compatibility was also integrated into the system.

Apple Computer intended to base A / UX 4. 0 for their PowerPC-based Macintoshes on OSF / 1, but the project was cancelled.

OSF / 1 was also ported by Kendall Square Research to their proprietary processor architecture used in the KSR1 supercomputer.

OSF / 1 AD ( Advanced Development ) was a distributed version of OSF / 1 developed for massively parallel supercomputers by Locus Computing Corporation.