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Subject: [announce] OASIS Seats New Board of Directors and Forms TechnicalAdvisory Board


OASIS Seats New Board of Directors and Forms Technical Advisory Board

Boston, MA, USA; 22 August 2002--OASIS, the XML interoperability
consortium, today announced the election of four members to its Board of
Directors. Edward Cobb of BEA Systems, Colin Evans of Intel, Patrick
Gannon of OASIS, and Laura Walker of the Federal Reserve System were
selected by the OASIS membership to provide business leadership to
advance OASIS as a major standards-setting body for Web services,
e-business security and other applications. The consortium also
announced the formation of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board, a group
of appointed and elected industry experts who provide guidance on issues
related to strategy, process, interoperability, and scope of OASIS
technical work.

"OASIS is providing a growing, flexible, destination for industry
technology cooperation," said Colin Evans, Director of Distributed
Systems in Intel Research and Development and Chairman of the OASIS
Board of Directors. "I am delighted to see such a strong set of industry
experts on both the Board of Directors and the Technical Advisory Board
who can continue to extend OASIS leadership."

Cobb, Evans, Gannon, and Walker join current OASIS Board members, Jim
Hughes of Hewlett-Packard, Christopher Kurt of Microsoft, Simon
Nicholson of Sun Microsystems, and Michael Weiner of IBM. Each director
serves two-year terms.

On behalf of the OASIS membership, Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of
OASIS, expressed thanks to Una Kearns of Documentum and Norbert H.
Mikula of Intel for their service on the OASIS Board of Directors as
their terms conclude.

OASIS Technical Advisory Board

The new OASIS Technical Advisory Board was formed to identify
opportunities and areas for standardization within OASIS that will be
beneficial for the entire community. Members include Derek Coleman of
HP, Angel Diaz of IBM, Chet Ensign of Lexis/Nexis, Eduardo Gutentag of
Sun Microsystems, Jackson He of Intel, Sanjay Patil of IONA, Krishna
Sankar of Cisco, and Heinz Ulrich Roggenkemper of SAP. Christopher Kurt
of Microsoft and Karl Best of OASIS will also serve, representing the
OASIS Board of Directors and staff, respectively.

"OASIS remains committed to its membership-driven Technical Committee
process, and our group will act as its steward," said Eduardo Gutentag
of Sun Microsystems, who serves as chair of the OASIS Technical Advisory
Board. "We will advise the Board of Directors on the OASIS technical
agenda and on interoperability and alignment issues, and encourage the
formation of joint committees to address those issues. We will seek
convergence and the elimination of barriers to interoperablity, and help
coordinate OASIS work with that of other standards-setting bodies."


About OASIS

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the
development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members
themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open
process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite
disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for Web services,
security, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and
interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than
500 corporate and individual members in 100 countries
around the world. For more information see http://www.oasis-open.org.


Press contact:

Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1 978.667.5115 x209










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