The UniForum Association is to be subsumed into the Open Group by the end of March as we revealed in our sister publication, Unigram.X in July when it was strenuously denied (CI No 2,961). UniForum is an association of individual users of open systems, not just corporates Tom Mace, former boss of 88open and the PowerOpen Association, has been appointed executive director on an interim basis, replacing Richard Jaross. UniForum says it will retain an independent board of directors and continue to provide services to its members. Its activities will continue to be managed from Silicon Valley, with expanded operations from current Open Group locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reading, Berkshire and Tokyo.
