European Committee for Interoperable Systems
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 the 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[1][2].
- 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
References
- ^ "ECIS Media Release January 26, 2007". ECIS. 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2007-10-19.
With XAML and OOXML Microsoft seeks to impose its own Windows-dependent standards and displace existing open cross-platform standards which have wide industry acceptance, permit open competition and promote competition-driven innovation. The end result will be the continued absence of any real consumer choice, years of waiting for Microsoft to improve - or even debug - its monopoly products, and of course high prices
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