When I wrote the original message, I did not have any of the materials from the seminar and, obviously, the stock symbol for Open Text. The Seminar was entitled " Concept of Operations for the Distributed Object Computation Testbed" which was submitted to the Patent and Trademark Office and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The participants in the project were: San Diego Supercomputer Center, the California Institute of Technology, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Old Dominion University, Open Text Corporation, Science Applications International, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Virginia. This list of government agencies with a finger in the pie is endless, but includes
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Customs Service, Defense Information Systems Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Aside from being able to store and transfer data more effeciently, this project is intended to put the Federal Government in the situation where they do single source negotiations for computer and communications services rather than having individual agencies perform the service. While most of the technology is over my head, it seems to me that the government services alone from this project should generate more revenue for Open Text than they have seen in the past. |
