OMG Member Testimonials

OMG members gain a number of business and technical advantages from their membership in the OMG. Here's what a few of our members have to say:

	PrismTech is a leading provider of enterprise, real-time and embedded CORBA technologies. A cornerstone of PrismTech's strategy since its foundation in 1992 has been the support and promotion of international standards for distributed computing. A key element of this strategy has been PrismTech's membership of the OMG which we joined in 1993. PrismTech believes that the software industry has benefited greatly from the OMG's specifications for interoperable computing as evidenced by the thousands of mission-critical CORBA applications in use today. Because PrismTech believes so strongly in the OMG we are prepared to dedicate significant time, money and resources to it by having PrismTech personnel contributing to its work (PrismTech’s Chief Architect serves on the OMG's Architecture Board and PrismTech's CEO serves on the OMG's Board of Directors), and by sponsoring its technical workshops and events (including the Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems and the Middleware That Works! Seminars).

	"The Object Management Group provides an open forum where we can work together with competitors, partners, and customers alike to create standards-based technologies. We have found that this significantly mitigates the risks associated with product development; but the real benefits are for customers - who use standards that really work." ---Sean Baker, Chief Corporate Scientist/Co-Founder at IONA, and OMG Board of Directors member IONA has been a member of the Object Management Group since April of 1992, and delivered its first commercially available CORBA-based Orbix(r) product in 1993. Over the past ten years, IONA has proven to more than 4,500 customers that it is the only company capable of solving their most difficult and complex integration problems. IONA currently holds elected positions on the Board of Directors, the Architecture Board & chairs the MARS Task Force. IONA has contributed to more than 30 OMG technology and specifications proposals during its decade of membership including recent examples such as WSDL/SOAP to CORBA, Realtime Notification, CWM Web Services, C++ 2003, and IDL to Java 2003.

	"The Object Management Group has enabled the pre-competitive creation of open and standards based technology that is moving the industry toward an interoperable, services based infrastructure. This is important for MITRE’s government sponsors who require interoperable, evolvable commercial systems for mission critical applications. The open, consensus process enables mitigation of product development investment risk, reduction of interoperability risk, and also stimulates reductions in product creation cycles." ---Dr. Mark T. Maybury, Executive Director, Information Technology Center at MITRE (OMG member since 1992)

	As an OMG member, Unisys is at the forefront of developing the next generation of Object Management Group standards for model driven architectures, which will enable rapid generation and deployment of component-based solutions. These architectures promise to increase the productivity of organizations using model-based architectures such as Unisys Business Blueprinting. A member since 1992, Unisys has been a major contributor to OMG's Model Driven Architecture initiative. Its member representatives have been instrumental in driving MDA forward. Unisys now participates on both OMG's Board of Directors and Architecture Board, which decide the major technical direction of the group.

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