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OMG Members Adopt Specifications for Message
Interoperability,
Systems Modeling and More at Technical Meeting
Members also elect Microsoft Representative to
OMG Board of Directors and Architecture Board at Meeting December 7-11
Needham, MA, USA - December 23, 2009 - Members of the OMG™ met in
Long Beach, Calif. during the week of December 7-11, 2009. At this
meeting, three specifications and four final or revised reports finished
the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The
Technology Committees approved the issuance of five new requests for
proposal. In addition, Steve Cook, Software Architect, Microsoft, was
elected to the OMG Board of Directors, and the Architecture Board.
The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following
specifications (including finalizations and revisions):
Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
The following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of
Directors for adoption at the next meeting in Jacksonville, Florida on
March 22-26, 2010.
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 Long Beach 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.
Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by Platinum Sponsor: No Magic, Inc., Gold
Sponsor: SPARX Systems and Silver Sponsors: Intel, Model Driven Solutions.
Meeting Special Events
This Technical Meeting also featured a three-day Cloud Symposium featuring
the Business Ecology Initiative
(BEI), a joint meeting of the BPM and SOA Consortiums, and the Cloud
Interoperability Roadmaps session. Along with CiOZone, OMG held a Green
Sustainability Information Day. Also at this meeting were a Terminology
Services Information Day, the Model Interchange Interoperability
Demonstration and a tutorial on MARTE. Select presentations from these
meetings will be made available online in the upcoming weeks.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Jacksonville, FL during the week of March
22-26, 2010 sponsored by No Magic, Inc. Additional sponsorship
opportunities are available. For more information, contact OMG's Vice
President, Business Development Ken Berk at ken.berk@omg.org
or +1-781-444 0404.
Members and non-members are invited to attend the three-day Business
Ecology Initiative event featuring sessions hosted by the BPM/SOA
Consortium and the GCIO with the theme
of Improving Business to IT Communication.
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
Founded in 1989, 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, 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.
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Edited by Stephanie
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