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1.5 The OpenDoc Community

   The OpenDoc community consists of three major players: Apple, IBM and 
   NOVELL. They are members of the Component Integration Laboratories, Inc. 
   (CI Labs). CI Labs is a non-profit organization founded by those three 
   companies.  CI Labs provides the technological specifications and 
   foundation technology for developing and integrating component software 
   through the OpenDoc component software architecture.  In addition, it 
   provides services such as marketing, validation and training.  For a list 
   of the CI Lab members and how to apply for a membership which is open to 
   all IS providers and customers, refer to the World Wide Web page: 
   http://www.cilabs.org 

   Apple, IBM and NOVELL are providing the following technology contributions 
   to OpenDoc: 

   °   Apple provides its experience with human interface and interactions, 
       OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) and Bento, a document storage 
       architecture. 

   °   IBM contributes the System Object Model (SOM), OS/2 and AIX support to 
       the OpenDoc architecture. 

   °   NOVELL provides their experience in Microsoft's OLE interoperability 
       and Windows support. 

Subtopics:

   1.5.1 Openness and Standards Support
   1.5.2 Certification Process

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