[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20611]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Open Applications Group, Inc. (``OAG'')
Notice is hereby given that, on June 16, 1997, pursuant to
Sec. 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open Applications
Group, Inc. has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the
identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objective of the
venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Sec. 6(a) of
the Act, the identities of the parties are: American Software, Atlanta,
GA; CGI Systems Inc., Atlanta, GA; Coda, Harrogate, UK; Computer
Associates, Lisle, IL; IBM Manufacturing Solutions Unit, Southbury, CT;
Infinium Software, Hyannis, MA; J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, Co;
Marcam Corporation, Weston, MA; NEC C&C Systems Group, Newton, MA;
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA; PeopleSoft, Pleasanton, CA;
QAD, Carpintera, CA; Siemens Nixdorf Informationsysyysteme, Munich,
Germany; TSW International, Inc., Atlanta, GA.
The OAG's area of planned activity is: (1) to promote connectivity
and multiple source integration amongst enterprise software
applications (as defined below) and (2) to encourage research and
development of one or more standards to assist vendors in achieving
connectivity in multiple-source integration of enterprise software
applications. ``Enterprise software applications'' shall mean
applications which automate the mission critical business processing
within and across functional disciplines of an organization; the
primary function of enterprise software applications is to support
enterprise productivity rather than work group or personal
productivity.
Membership in the Open Application Group, Inc. will remail open and
``OAG'' will file additional written notifications disclosing all
changes in membership.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-20611 Filed 8-5-97; 8:45 am]
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