Contact:
Stephanie Covert
OMG
+1-843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
OMG Celebrates 20 Years of Setting the Standards
at First Latin American Technical Meeting
Standards Advanced at Meeting June 22-26
that also featured Spanish-language Information Days
Needham, MA, USA - July 14, 2009 - Members of the OMG™ met in San
Jose, Costa Rica during the week of June 22-26, 2009. At this meeting, one
specification and five final reports finished the adoption process and
were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees
approved the issuance of two new requests for proposal.
The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following
specifications (including finalizations and revisions):
Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications
are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the
next meeting.
Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation
OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization,
government agency, or university to join and contribute to our
specifications. The following were issued in San Jose, Costa Rica and are
currently open to participation.
Non-members may download information on any Request process from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule.
For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI)
dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For
more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.
OMG's 20th Anniversary Celebration
OMG's 20th Anniversary Celebration included a presentation by special
guest and Nobel Laureate Costa Rican President Oscar Árias as well as
keynotes by Sandy Carter, VP, SOA, BPM and WebSphere, IBM and Clay
Richardson, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research. To view pictures from the
event, including the cake cutting, please visit http://www.soley.com/cgi-bin/show?tcmeeting200906.
Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold
Sponsor: SPARX Systems; Silver Sponsors: Intel, Lombardi, Model Driven
Solutions; and Meeting Sponsors: Platinum: GBM; Gold: Microsoft; Silver:
CINDE, Oracle, Club de Investigación Tecnologica.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in San Antonio, TX during the week of September
14-18, 2009 sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold Sponsor:
SPARX Systems; Silver Sponsors: Intel, Lombardi, Model Driven Solutions.
Members and non-members are invited to attend the BPM
Consortium, the SOA Consortium
and the GCIO co-located events during
the meeting week.
Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers;
for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest.
Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration.
All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.
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About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer
industry consortium that in 2009 is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. 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,
Green Computing, 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.
Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven
Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI, UML, UML logo and CORBA are registered
trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, Business Ecology,
Actionable Architecture, SOA Consortium, SysML, SoaML, MOF, MDA Logos,
BPMN, OCRES, OCUP, OCEB, Green Computing Maturity Model, GCMM,
Unified Modeling Language and "We Set the Standard" tagline are trademarks of Object Management Group. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Edited by Stephanie
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