The goal of the new association is to raise the status of enterprise architects to a par with CPAs and lawyers' bar associations, according to the announcement made on the first day of the Open Group's Enterprise Architects Practitioners Conference in San Diego. The AOGEA already has 700 members and the Open Group, a vendor and technology neutral consortium, is also offering certification programs. More than 2,000 individuals have completed The Open Group Architecture Framework certification and approximately 1,700 practitioners have completed the organization's IT Architecture Certification since those programs began less than two years ago, according to today's announcement.
