Editing Open Software Foundation (section)

==Merger==
By 1993, it had become clear that the greater threat to UNIX system vendors was not each other as much as the increasing presence of [[Microsoft]] in enterprise computing. In May, the [[Common Open Software Environment]] (COSE) initiative was announced by the major players in the UNIX world from both the UI and OSF camps: Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, [[Unix System Laboratories]], and the [[Santa Cruz Operation]]. As part of this agreement, Sun and AT&T became OSF sponsor members, OSF submitted Motif to the [[X/Open]] Consortium for certification and branding and [[Novell]] passed control and licensing of the UNIX trademark to the X/Open Consortium.

In March 1994, OSF announced its new organizational model and introduced the COSE technology model as its Pre-Structured Technology (PST) process, which marked the end of OSF as a significant software development company.<ref>{{cite press release
 |publisher=AT&T Global Information Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, SunSoft Incorporated, et al.
 |date=March 23, 1994 |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.osf.misc/msg/4ebc895ff10823f1
 |title=Leading Vendors Unify to Accelerate Open Systems
 |access-date=2007-07-18
}}</ref> It also assumed responsibility for future work on the COSE initiative's [[Common Desktop Environment]] (CDE). In September 1995, the merger of OSF/Motif and CDE into a single project, CDE/Motif, was announced.<ref>{{cite press release
 |publisher=Open Software Foundation
 |date=September 7, 1995
 |url=http://groups.google.com/group/cu.motif-talk/msg/9935c0cb91e254fd
 |title=OSF Announces Formal Launch of CDE/Motif Project
 |access-date=2007-07-18
}}</ref>

In February 1996 OSF merged with X/Open to become [[The Open Group]].