OpenDoc was initially invented by Component Integration Laboratories but in 1996 it was adopted by the Object Management Group as a project to establish an alternative compound document standard largely inspired by Microsoftsobject linking and embedding (OLE).
... them as follows: British Aerospace (33%), Daimler-Benz (33%), Alenia[?] of Italy (21%), and CASA of Spain (13%).
Over the next five years, design work continued, ...