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OMG Members Elect New Member to Board of Directors
Joseph T. Brand, Vice President, Enterprise IT Architecture and
Chief Architect, MetLife® Joins Board

Needham, MA, USA - February 6, 2008 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) announces that Joseph T. Brand, Vice President, Enterprise IT Architecture and Chief Architect of MetLife, has been elected to the OMG Board of Directors. Mary Kotch, AVP, Enterprise Data Management at MetLife, will serve as the company's Alternate Board Member, and Harsh Sharma, Ph.D., will serve as MetLife's liaison on the OMG P&C standard and SOA activity.

Members of the OMG Board of Directors are responsible for fiscal and operational oversight, corporate strategy and strategic relationship oversight of OMG. Most importantly, members of the OMG Board of Directors are the final decision makers in the OMG Technology Adoption process and vote, based on the recommendations from the Technical Committee and Architecture Board, to adopt new OMG specifications.

"We would like to extend a warm welcome and congratulations to Joseph on his election to the OMG Board of Directors. His expertise and leadership will be especially important to our Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance initiative," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Object Management Group. "All our of Board of Directors members are highly dedicated individuals devoted to promoting the development and adoption of standards that the industry needs and use to achieve better interoperability and efficiency. I know that Joseph will make an excellent addition to this organization."

Joseph T. Brand joins four other new Board Members elected at the recent Technical Meeting in Burlingame, California:

• Alan Stevens, Chairman, ARTiSAN SOFTWARE TOOLS
• Kenneth Lord, CEO, FireStar Software
• Gary Duncanson, President, No Magic Inc.
• Victor Harrison, Partner, Computer Sciences Corporation

The OMG Board of Directors also includes representatives from BEA Systems, CA, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, EDS, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, IONA Technologies, KDM Analytics, Lockheed Martin, Mentor Graphics, MITRE, Model Driven Solutions, Object Management Group, Objective Interface Systems, PrismTech, Real-Time Innovations, Telelogic, TethersEnd Consulting, THALES, and Unisys.

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About the Object Management Group
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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Edited by Stephanie