The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) is an international non-profit association founded in 1989 in order to promote

interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader defi ...

and market conditions in the

Information and Communications Technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, ...

(ICT) sector allowing vigorous

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on the merits and a diversity of consumer choice. ECIS has represented its members on many issues related to interoperability and competition before European, national and international bodies, including the European Union institutions and the

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(WIPO). ECIS members include large and smaller information and communications technology hardware and software providers as

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, IBM,

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Red Hat Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become ass ...

, and

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Involvement against Microsoft dominance

Over the past years, ECIS has been actively involved in the European Commission's antitrust condemnation against Microsoft, now upheld by the

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in September 2007.

Ziff-Davis Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company. First founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis, the company primarily owns technology-oriented media websites, online shopping-related services, and ...

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comments that - Other complaints about Microsoft include: * That bundling

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Vista Vista usually refers to a distant view. Vista may also refer to: Software *Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007 *VistA, (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) ...

is an attempt to replace

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by a Microsoft-specific technology * That

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is a Microsoft-dependent document format

References

External links

ECIS main site
Information technology organizations based in Europe Interoperability Standards organisations in Belgium {{EU-stub

Involvement against Microsoft dominance

See also

Statements about the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft

References

External links