The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers, software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong: there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner, who accedes to the top job today, but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing – the best they’ve dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprisewide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y’all, but they can’t find a snappy acronym to fit the words.
