X/Open Co Ltd’s user requirements document Shaping the Future of Open Systems is published in full for the first time at UniForum, and highlights a number of deliverables that users would like to see X/Open give priority: these include the production of a set of guidelines to the operating system procurement policies for government institutions and large commercial users; user interface guidelines; Open Systems Interconnection alignment policy; personal computer and mainframe interworking; an applications programming interface for distributed transaction processing; reports on new technologies such as computer-aided software engineering tools and Object Management; and a guide to the problems of internationalisation of products.
