Open O

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.opensolutions.com

Open Solutions' software helps run the till for small and midsized banks and credit unions. The company's processing systems manage customer service, payroll processing, and year-end reporting. It also offers hosted software that enables banks to provide online services such as account information and management, electronic bill payment, and funds transfer. The company also offers tools that integrate with its core systems, including applications for online procurement, business intelligence, check imaging, financial accounting, and interactive voice response. In early 2007 Open Solutions was acquired by Providence Equity Partners and the Carlyle Group in a deal valued at about $1.3 billion.

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Louis Hernandez Jr.
President: Stephen J. (Steve) Cameron
EVP and CFO: John W. Frederick

Competitors:
Fiserv
Harland Financial Solutions
Jack Henry

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Open o (majuscule: Ɔ, minuscule: ɔ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel. It is used in the orthographies of many African languages using the African reference alphabet.

Contents 1 ASCII 2 Unicode 3 Similar letters 4 See also

ASCII

In ASCII, the minuscule ɔ can be typed by pressing Alt+596.

Unicode

In Unicode, the majuscule Ɔ is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block at U+0186 and the minuscule ɔ is encoded at U+0254.

Similar letters

Johann Martin Schleyer proposed an alternate form with a broken O for Ö in Volapük but it was rarely used.

The first of these Claudian letters is the antisigma.

The letter looks like a reversed C. Claudius introduced a reversed C (the antisigma) with the intention of replacing bs and ps.

The Yucatec Maya language used a reversed C as a consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or tz' is preferred.

See also

• Open E
• Writing systems of Africa (section on Latin script)

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
history • palaeography • derivations • diacritics • punctuation • numerals • Unicode • list of letters • ISO/IEC 646

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