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Open Services Gateway Initiative Elects New Leadership

San Ramon, Calif. - (July 10, 2000) - The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) has elected a new board of directors and officers to serve the organization through May 2001. OSGi (http://www.osgi.org) is an independent, non-profit corporation composed of 65 leading technology companies working to define and promote open standards for the delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices.

"Last year was extremely successful for OSGi, as evidenced by our strong membership growth, active participation in OSGi expert groups and working committees, and the public release of the OSGi specification," said John Barr, president of OSGi, and director, Systems Architecture and Technology for Personal Area Networks, Motorola. "We are looking forward to the strong leadership of our new board and officers to help guide the development of OSGi into 2001."

contemporary The OSGi specification, which complements virtually all residential networking standards, defines an open standard that enables multiple software services to be loaded and run on a services gateway such as a set top box, cable modem, DSL modem, PC or dedicated residential gateway. Once resident in a services gateway, these services, such as energy measurement and control, safety and security services, health care monitoring services, device control and maintenance, electronic commerce services and more, can interact both with devices and networks in the home or small office and with clients and servers. The services gateway also can consolidate and manage voice, data, control, Internet and multimedia communications to and from the home and small office.

The following were elected by OSGi members to serve on the OSGi board of directors until May 2001:

Rafiul Ahad Dan Bandera Senior Director, Mobile and Embedded Products Program Director and BLM for Client Oracle Corporation and OEM Technology IBM Corporation

John Barr Maurizio Beltrami Director, Systems Architecture and Technology Technology Manager Interconnectivity Personal Area Networks Phillips Consumer Electronics Motorola, Inc.

Hans Werner Bitzer Mark Dwight Head of Section Smart Home Products Manager, Product Marketing Deutsche Telekom AG Cisco Systems, Inc.

Robert Elliott Eric Chu Director Central Electronics System Group Marketing Manager Whirlpool Corporation Sun Microsystems

Rolf Johansson Dr. Marie-Jose Montpetit Marketing Manager, Senior R&D Engineer Residential Communications Services Nokia Home Communications. Ericsson

Jeff Lund Francois Rongere Vice President, Silicon Valley Project Manager Business Development and Corporate Marketing Electricite de France (EDF) Echelon Corporation

Russ Sivey Director, New Service Concepts GTE

The following were elected by OSGi members to serve as officers until May 2001:

John Barr Theirry Nicolle OSGi President OSGi Regional Vice President - EMEA Director, Systems Architecture and Technology EMEA PVC Device Software Product Manager Personal Area Networks IBM Corporation Motorola, Inc.

Lawrence Chan John Hughes OSGi Regional Vice President - Asia Pacific OSGi Regional Vice President - Americas Vice President, Asia Pacific Director of Business Development Echelon Corporation Texas Instruments

Joseph Bassi John Sharood OSGi Vice President of Marketing OSGi Treasurer Senior Manager, Business Development Vice President, Network Systems Sun Microsystems Invensys Controls

Uwe Hansmann Deepak Kamlani OSGi Secretary OSGi Executive Director IBM Persuasive Computing Managing Director interprise ventures

About OSGi

The OSGi is a non-profit corporation formed to provide a forum for the creation of open specifications for the delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices, and to accelerate the demand for products and services based on these specifications worldwide through the sponsorship of market and user education programs. The San Ramon, California, USA-based consortium comprises 65 member organizations from around the globe. Membership is open to any interested party, including Internet Service Providers, Network Operators, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Independent Software Vendors, end users, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. The consortium's Web site address is http://www.osgi.org. 


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