European Committee for Interoperable Systems

European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) in short

The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) is an international non-profit association founded in 1989 in order to promote interoperability and market conditions in the ICT sector allowing vigorous competition on the merits and a diversity of consumer choice. ECIS has actively represented its members on many issues related to interoperability and competition before European, national and international bodies, including the EU institutions and WIPO. ECIS’ members include large and smaller information and communications technology hardware and software providers as Adobe Systems, Corel Corporation, IBM, Linspire, Nokia, Opera Software, Oracle Corporation, RealNetworks, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems.

Activities on an European Union Level

Over the past years,ECIS has been actively involved in the European Commission’s anti-trust condemnation against Microsoft, now upheld by the European Court of First Instance in September 2007.

ECIS statement from Oct. 22 on the EU-MS agreement

ECIS statement on the European Court First Instance (CFI) Microsoft judgment

March 26, 2004 ECIS welcomes Commission Decision finding Microsoft infringed Article 82