Rambus sues Infineon for patent infringement; Infineon sues Rambus for abuse of the JEDEC standards process; The Federal Trade Commission opens an investigation against Rambus for standards process abuse, and considers industry-wide guidelines to regulate the standards process. Meanwhile, the members of scores of consortia are haggling over their intellectual property policies. Is this any way to run a consensus-based ...
What do Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C and David Schell, President of OpenGIS Consortium, have in common with billionaires Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Lou Gerstner and Scott McNealy? CIO Magazine put them all in the category of the 20 most influential individuals in enabling information technology revolution. In doing so, the CIO editors recognized the vital role that ...
A consortium, like its members, has to maintain a strong value proposition in order to attract and hold members. Due to budgetary pressures and the evolution of the marketplace, a wave of consolidation is continuing as consortia compete for scarce membership dollars.