88open was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC CPU systems.

[1] At its peak, the spinoff 88open Consortium Ltd. had a staff of 30 people and over 50 supporters.

[2] The effort was largely a failure, at least in terms of attracting attention to the 88000 platform.

[3][4] Motorola provided 50% of the financial support for the consortium.

Early members were Data General, Convergent, and Tektronix.