88open

{{Infobox company

| logo = 88open logo.png

| founder = Motorola

| founded = {{start date and age|1988}}

| name = 88open Consortium Ltd.

}}

88open was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC CPU systems.{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4D4EAAAAMBAJ&q=88open+motorola&pg=PA31|title=RISC Chip Vendors Vie for Third-Party Support|last=Patton|first=Carole|date=May 30, 1988|work=InfoWorld}} At its peak, the spinoff 88open Consortium Ltd. had a staff of 30 people and over 50 supporters.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/alliancerevoluti00gome|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/alliancerevoluti00gome/page/124 124]|quote=88open.|title=The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry|last=Gomes-Casseres|first=Benjamin|date=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674016477|language=en}} The effort was largely a failure, at least in terms of attracting attention to the 88000 platform. The group was closed in favor of the AIM alliance, and the 88000 platform was folded into AIM's PowerPC.{{cite web |title=STANDARDS WARS: SITUATIONS, STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES |page=7 |url=http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/pdf/mar06/feature.pdf |publisher=ConsortiumInfo.org |date=March 2006 |author=Updegrove, Andrew |access-date=2009-06-16}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hQvhwk7xkwC&q=88open+powerpc&pg=PA330|title=Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure|last1=Kahin|first1=Brian|last2=Abbate|first2=Janet|author2-link=Janet Abbate|date=1995|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262112062|language=en}}