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Contact:
Nancy Dhillon
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org
OMG Announces Partnership with SIGS-DATACOM, Germany
Needham, MA - January 21, 2005 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
today announced its partnership with SIGS-DATACOM, Germany. The
partnership will allow OMG and SIGS-DATACOM, Germany to work together to
produce high-quality industry events based in Europe. SIGS-DATACOM is a
leading supplier of IT conferences and IT seminars, i.e. the OOP
conference in Munich, the SET conference in Zurich and then TDWI
conference in Munich. In addition SIGS-DATACOM is the publisher of the two
leading German IT journals OBJEKTspektrum and JavaSPEKTRUM. In the year
2005 SIGS-DATACOM plans three event series with OMG for May, September and
October 2005.
"This exclusive relationship between OMG and SIGS-DATACOM,
especially in German media but also in other European countries, is an
important new step for both organizations," said Richard Mark Soley,
Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group. "Together, SIGS-DATACOM
and OMG will keep European audiences up-to-date with regards to OMG
technologies, including domain standards in healthcare and finance,
telecommunications and manufacturing, as well as Model Driven
Architecture® (MDA®), UML® and CORBA®."
SIGS-DATACOM now holds the legal rights to use the registered trademark
name "OMG Information Days." In June 2005 the OMG Information
Days will be held in Zurich (Switzerland), Munich and Frankfurt (both in
Germany) in close cooperation with OMG. The single track events will be
supported by OMG with regard to the technical program development.
Specifically, OMG will contribute a keynote speaker and will be present at
the respective event by their European representative. SIGS-DATACOM is in
the process of finalizing the website and all details regarding the new
OMG events. Specific information regarding the events will be available as
of January 30, 2005 at http://www.ltt.de.
The IT journal OBJEKTspektrum will also work in close cooperation with
the OMG as well. The publication's audience of software architects, IT
project leaders and advanced programmers/developers will receive
up-to-date information about OMG´s standardization topics as well as best
practices and case studies of the latest applications.
For further information about SIG-DATACOM GmbH, contact Simone
Hannemann at Tel.: +49 (0)2241 2341 500,
mailto:simone.hannemann@sigs-datacom.de
or visit http://www.sigs-datacom.de.
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About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports
a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI,
the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA,
include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel
(CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's
standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running
today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is
an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry
specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at
www.omg.org.
Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven Architecture, OMG Logo, UML and
CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, MOF,
MDA Logos, Unified Modeling Language and UML logo are trademarks, of
Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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