The Corporation for Open Systems (COS) has announced the addition of General Motors Corp., CitiCorp, Dow Chemical Co., and Bridge Communications, Inc., to its roster of member companies. These additions bring the non-profit organization's membership to 45 equipment manufacturers and user firms. C0S was created to speed the development of products supporting network communications among dissimilar equipment compliant with international standards such as the International Standards Organization's Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model. It is hoped that the addition of such large and powerful corporations joining the effort to promote intersystems communications will speed the development of workable solutions.
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