Simply put, 88open either has to reinvent itself or hang it up, writes Maureen O’Gara: phoenix-like, it is said to be trying to become something in the nature of a superconsortium, building its test suite expertise into an organisation that implements and develops test suites for the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co, Digital Equipment Corp and the PowerPC consortium, and probably does the branding and handles independent software vendor recruitment; naturally this kind of thing would need a change of name and sources say that it is seeking a decision on all this by spring.
