Open ICEcat is an Open Content project under the Open Content License in which a worldwide open catalogue is created for product information. Editors are participating manufacturers. The users of the product content are distributors, resellers, retailers, comparison websites or online shopping directories, enterprise resource planning systems or the manufacturers themselves. Open ICEcat began formally in December 2005 with 20 participating IT manufacturers.

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  • Open ICEcat is an Open Content project under the Open Content License in which a worldwide open catalogue is created for product information. Editors are participating manufacturers. The users of the product content are distributors, resellers, retailers, comparison websites or online shopping directories, enterprise resource planning systems or the manufacturers themselves. Open ICEcat began formally in December 2005 with 20 participating IT manufacturers. Among the earliest contributors are Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, IBM and Lenovo. As of March 2007, this number has grown to more than 90 manufacturers, including participants from consumer electronics like Sony, Philips and Kodak, and the telecom industry. On the user side, similar growth has been seen. In September 2009 Open ICEcat has grown to some 200 manufacturers and supports 25 languages. Including English (UK & US), Russian, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, and many others. The Open Catalogue is used by over 6000 ebusiness partners. Catalogues cover IT, CE, Telecom and Office. This fast growth and worldwide coverage makes Open ICEcat by far the most successful Open Catalog. It's only worldwide competitors provide no open catalogue and are thus "propietary": CNETChannel is targeting large customers, and Etilize lacks coverage of the EMEA market. Open ICEcat is interesting because it demonstrates that the Open Content concept is not only relevant for public domain projects like Wikipedia, but also for commerce-related projects. This is analogous to the move of open source applications like Apache, Linux and MySQL into the world of commerce, which marked an increased professional acceptance level.
  • Open ICEcat is een open content-project die valt onder de OPL (Open Content License) waarin een open catalogus is opgebouwd voor productinformatie. De editors zijn particperende fabrikanten. De gebruikers van deze open catalogus zijn distributeurs, resellers, webwinkels, vergelijkingssites of postorderaars, ERP-systemen of de fabrikanten zelf. Open ICEcat startte formeel in december 2005 met 20 participerene ICT -fabrikanten, waaronder Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM en Lenovo. Eind 2008 is dit aantal gegroeid tot 160 fabrikanten. Ook aan de gebruikerszijde is de adoptie van de open catalogus zeer snel verlopen, er worden inmiddels 22 talen ondersteund. Open ICEcat is interessant omdat het aantoont dat een open content-concept niet alleen levensvatbaar is voor publiek domein-projecten als Wikipedia, maar ook voor commercie-gerelateerde projecten. Dit analoog aan de ontwikkeling van open source toepassingen als Apache, Linux en MySQL richting de commerciële wereld, wat een hoog niveau van professionele acceptatie markeerde.
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  • Open ICEcat is an Open Content project under the Open Content License in which a worldwide open catalogue is created for product information. Editors are participating manufacturers. The users of the product content are distributors, resellers, retailers, comparison websites or online shopping directories, enterprise resource planning systems or the manufacturers themselves. Open ICEcat began formally in December 2005 with 20 participating IT manufacturers.
  • Open ICEcat is een open content-project die valt onder de OPL (Open Content License) waarin een open catalogus is opgebouwd voor productinformatie. De editors zijn particperende fabrikanten. De gebruikers van deze open catalogus zijn distributeurs, resellers, webwinkels, vergelijkingssites of postorderaars, ERP-systemen of de fabrikanten zelf. Open ICEcat startte formeel in december 2005 met 20 participerene ICT -fabrikanten, waaronder Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM en Lenovo.
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