Open Source Software such as Linux has been developing on introduction
to information systems and application in embedded systems at enterprises
and universities. However it is indicated that OSS still has some
technical and system problems.
The Japan OSS Promotion Forum (Chairman Kaoru Yano: President of NEC Corporation ) applies new software paradigms of OSS and strengthens
competitiveness of Japan with respect for competition and collaboration
among companies and cooperation with communities.These activities aim to realize 'prevention of monopoly and expanding
choices', 'promotion of technology innovation', 'human resource
development'.
The Japan OSS Promotion Forum works together with the China OSS
Promotion Union and the Korea OSS Promotion Forum to form the Northeast
Asia OSS Promotion Forum for the purpose of collaborating with private
enterprises, research institutes, and educational organizations
in China and Korea. The activities of the Northeast Asia OSS Promotion
Forum are harmonized with the government level collaboration between
Japan, China, and Korea.
With participation from venders, users, and academic experts of
information systems in Japan, an effort is underway to solve problems
in utilizing OSS by freely discussing these problems.
The Japan OSS Promotion Forum is composed of Executive and Advisory
Board, Steering Committee and 4 Sub Committee. Executive and Advisory
Board is formed by leaders of various companies and in the center
of the forum. And Steering Committee is supporting Executive and
Advisory Board. Steering Committee supervises 4 Sub Committees such as Platform Sub Committee, Application Sub Committee, Embedded System Sub Committee and Human Resource Development Sub Committee as well as Planning team. Each Sub Committee researches
and endeavors to promote OSS in each field.
Chairman |
Kaoru Yano (President of NEC Corporation). |
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Executive Board |
Hiroshi Kuwahara (Senior Corporate Advisor of Hitachi, Ltd.) |
Kunio Ishihara (Chairman of Japan Users Association of Information Systems(JUAS)) |
Naoyuki Akikusa (Member of the Board Senior Executive Advisor of FUJITSU Limited) |
Ryoji Chubachi (President and Electronics CEO, Sony Corporation) |
Takuma Otoshi (President and Chairman, IBM Japan, Ltd.) |
Tomokazu Hamaguchi (Senior Corporate Adviser of NTT Data Corporation) |
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Advisory Board |
Gentaro Sawa (Senior Executive Vice President of NTT COMWARE CORPORATION) |
Harumi Saito (Corporate Vice President of Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.) |
Hideyuki Tokuda (Dean,Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University) |
Hironobu Nagano (The Chairman of the Board of AZing Co., LTD.) |
Kazuyoshi Hasegawa (Managing Executvie Officer of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.) |
Masahiko Yoshida (Director of Hewlett-Packard Japan,Ltd.) |
Masaki Sugiyama (Member of the Board Senior Executive officer of Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd) |
Ryu Koriyama (Chief Executive Officer of Aplix Corporation) |
Ryugo Marumori (SRA Holdings, Inc. Chairman) |
Shojiro Nakamura (General Manager of Sun Microsystems K.K.) |
Takashi Kunai (Japan Director, The Linux Foundation) |
Tosiyasu L Kunii (Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo) |
Tsuyoshi Hoshina (Chief Technology Officer of Nihon Unisys,
Ltd.) |
Yoshio Iwahashi (Director & Executive Vice President
of NS Solutions Corporation) |
Yoshiyuki Miyabe (Executive Officer of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) |
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Chairman of Steering Committee Tomomi Suzuki (Hitachi,Ltd) |
Project Manager of Platform Sub Committee Kenichi Hori (NEC Corp.) |
Project Manager of Platform Sub Committee Ichiro Osawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) |
Project Manager of Application Sub Committee Masatoshi Yoshida (FUJITSU, Ltd.)
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Project Manager of Application Sub Committee Seiya Maeda (Good-Day Inc.) |
Project Manager of Embedded System Sub Committee Satoru Ueda (Sony Corp.)
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Project Manager of Human Resource Development Sub Committee Hiroshi Miura (NTT Data Corp) |
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