1. Introduction -- 2. Open systems dependability -- 3. Achieving open systems dependability -- 4. Consensus building and accountability achievement in DEOS process -- 5. Tools for consensus building and accountability achievement support -- 6. Runtime environment for DEOS process and architecture -- 7. Flexible failure management with scripting -- 8. Tools for DEOS programming development -- 9. Toward an open systems dependability evaluation framework -- 10. Toward standardization of open systems dependability -- 11. Concluding remarks.