 In April 1995, Willows Software, Inc. (formerly Multiport, Inc.) a Saratoga, California-based Canopy-funded company, that had been working on Windows to Unix technologies (inherited from then defunct Hunter Systems, Inc.) since early 1993, joined the "ad hoc" ECMA group.This group became Technical Committee 37 in August (about the time Windows 95 was released).Willows vowed to complete a full draft specification by the end of the year.