VITA is an American National Standards developer and a submitter of Industry
Technical Agreements to the IEC, and the VITA Standards Organization provides
its members with the ability to develop and to promote open technology
standards. It's a nonprofit organization of vendors and users having a common
market interest in real-time, modular embedded computing systems. The
functions performed by VITA are technical, promotional and user related and are
aimed at increasing the total market size. VITA's mission includes not only
promoting
VMEbus, but promoting the very concept of
open technology as embodied in the many standards currently under development
within the VITA Standards Organization.