Open System

Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - "This defines the accepted international standard by which open systems should communicate with each other.

open systems
Computing environments that allow users to access and utilize data and software across multiple platforms.

Open System
An implementation of industry standards such that incompatible operating systems, hardware platforms, and application software are tied together to create compatible computing environments.

The open systems model is an approach to software engineering and system design that enables and encourages sharing of data, resources, tools, and so forth between different users or applications.

Select an open system solution. An open system solution is one in which the hardware and software components are purchased from different vendors and integrated into a system by a consultant known as a systems integrator.

GOSIPGovernment Open System Interconnection Protocols are U.S. government procurement specifications for OSI protocols (see OSI).

open system Open systems are systems that interoperate through open interfaces, protocols etc. developed and maintained in an inclusive, open consensus process.

Open System Is a system that transfers both matter and energy can cross its boundary to the surrounding environment. Most ecosystems are an example of an open system.

The move to non-proprietary, open systems began as a response to the dominance of International Business Machines (IBM) and its Systems Network Architecture (SNA). In 1979, the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI Model) was published.

List of open source software packages
Open system
Open standard
Open format
OpenDocument The new OASIS OpenDocument format (ODF) to create an open system for business & public sector documents.
Free software
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A truly open system, AXSYS®.Process allows users to use the design tools of their choice, produce deliverables in the format of choice, and re-use design data, ...

Ordnance Survey of Ireland; Open Systems Interconnect model; Open Systems Interconnection
OSIP
Operational Satellite Improvement Program ...

This model helps to understand the advantages of an open system in general and the OGIS in particular:
- the applications are scalable (for a simple map display we do not need all analytical GIS functions); ...

In an open system, such developments are additionally affected by trade.

OGC The Open GIS Consortium, a group composed of software vendors, academics, government agencies, consultants and software integrators, dedicated to open systems geoprocessing.

Topics discussed in the session included a look at where the Internet would take us, the status of open systems, GIS & visualization, and enterprise systems / system integration.

rock system The concept of a sequence of events involving the formation, alteration, destruction and reformation of rocks as a result of geologic processes. Unlike the rock cycle it is an open system and does not return to a starting point.

A type of computer network established using coaxial cable, twisted pair cable or fiber optic cable. It has a network protocol defining the physical and data link layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model.

See also: Information, Environment, Model, Software, GIS