OASIS Elects New Board of Directors

OASIS, the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards, has elected
of a new board of directors led by Chrystal Software’s Simon Nicholson who will serve as chairperson and Sun Microsystems’ Bill Smith who becomes president.

Jonathan Parsons of Xyvision Enterprise Solutions will serve as vice
president/secretary/treasurer and Bob Sutor of IBM Corp. as chief strategy
officer. DataChannel’s Norbert Mikula will become chief technical officer and
lead the technical track. Mary McRae (DMSi) serves as chief marketing
officer and leads the marketing track. Alan Hester (Xerox) serves as
director and liaison to the CGM-Open affiliate consortium.

OASIS is a non-profit, international consortium created to promote
product-independent data and content interchange. Focusing on product
interoperability, OASIS covers structured information standards including
XML, SGML and CGM. OASIS operates XML.ORG, an XML industry portal featuring
an XML registry and repository that offers automated public access to XML
schemas for electronic commerce, business-to-business transactions, and
tools and application interoperability.