The Open Group has found an end-user to sit at the head of the table and has appointed Litton Industries’ Denis Brown as its new chairman. He will replace NCR Corp SVP and CTO Dennis Roberson. Brown is VP and general manager of air force infrastructure programs for Litton. Roberson was chairman of the Open Software Foundation for two years prior to his two year stint at TOG. For the record, The Open Group’s nine board members are DEC, HP, SNI, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, NCR, Novell and Sun.
