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April 12, 2006

Siemens Nixdorf Becomes a Principal Member of the Open GIS Consortium

Wayland, Massachusetts, USA, March 24, 1997 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems AG (SNI) has become a Principal Member of the consortium.As a Principal Member, SNI has a seat on OGCs Management Committee, which oversees the OGC Technical Committee and plans cooperative industry development programs.We seek to make geographic data and geoprocessing an integral part of enterprise information systems around the world, and Siemens Nixdorf will help us make that vision a reality.Gunter Wagner, Siemens Nixdorfs European GIS Manager, said, OGC has given the GIS industry a temendous push at the international level.About OGC OGC, an open consortium of 90 corporations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and universities, coordinates collaborative development of open geoprocessing software technologies.

January 28, 1997

Continuing Progress Toward Open Geoprocessing

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that it has received excellent responses to its recent Requests for Information (RFIs) which are part of the OpenGIS Interoperability Specification effort. The RFIs cover geographic information catalog services and imagery. Seven organizations submitted information in response to the “OpenGIS Catalog Services RFI.”

January 2, 1997

New Members Join Open GIS Consortium in November and December, 1996

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that in November and December, 1996, the following organizations became members of the consortium: Microsoft Corporation, Autodesk, Inc., Member.Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., Regional Science Institute, LAS (Logiciels et Applications Scientifiques), Inc., Urban Logic, Inc., Pusan National University, and INHA National University/

January 2, 1997

Microsoft Joins Open GIS Consortium

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced today that Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) has become a Principal Member of the consortium

August 30, 1996

OpenGIS RFP and RFIs Mark Progress Toward Interoperable Geoprocessing

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for engineering specifications that implement the simple geometry components of the OpenGIS Specification (“OGIS”) for major distributed computing platforms, such as OLE/COM, CORBA, the Internet, and ODBC

August 12, 1996

OGC to Issue RFPs for Open GIS Specifications

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) recently announced a new Request for Proposals (RFP) policy by which geoprocessing software vendors will deliver specifications for interoperable geoprocessing software on targeted distributed computing platforms (DCPs) such as OLE/COM, CORBA, and Java

July 29, 1996

Bentley Joins the Open GIS Consortium as a Principal Member

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (Wayland, MA) today announced that Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, PA) has joined the Consortium as a principal member

July 12, 1996

Larry Ayres Joins Open GIS Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that Larry Ayers, Executive Vice President, Intergraph Corporation, has joined OGC’s Board of Directors

May 9, 1996

Open GIS Consortium, Inc Announces OpenGIS Guide, 9-May-96

The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the “OpenGIS(TM) Guide: An Introduction to Interoperable Geoprocessing, Part 1 of the Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (OGIS)” was recently completed and is now available to the public