− | [[OASIS]] stands for Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. It is a non-profit association that works for the convergence, adoption and development of the open standards which will improve the standards of information society all over the globe. OASIS came into being in the year 1993 as Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Open, a group of users and vendors, who were entrusted with the task of developing standards and preparing guidelines for proper inter-operation between the products. In the year 1998, the name was changed to OASIS, which included Extensible Markup Language (XML) thereby broadening its spectrum. | + | [[OASIS]] stands for Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. It is a non-profit association that works for the convergence, adoption and development of the open standards that could improve the standards of the information society all over the globe. OASIS came into being in the year 1993 as Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Open, a group of users and vendors, who were entrusted with the task of developing standards and preparing guidelines for proper inter-operation between the products. In 1998, the name was changed to OASIS, which included Extensible Markup Language (XML) thereby broadening its spectrum. |
− | There are 5000+ participants in this group who are representing more than 600 organizations from over 100 countries.<ref>[http://www.oasis-open.org/org OASIS]</ref> | + | There are 5000+ participants in the group, representing more than 600 organizations from over 100 countries.<ref>[http://www.oasis-open.org/org OASIS]</ref> |