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BUSINESS COMMITTEE QUESTIONNAIRE


        relating to process:   <process name>
        deadline for response: <deadline>


Dear Submitter Representative or Revision/Finalization Task Force Participant,

You are receiving this questionnaire for one of two reasons:

      A.  because the specification or support measure document that you have
	  submitted to the Object Management Group, Inc. has completed (or
	  nearly completed) its final technical vote in either the Platform
	  or Domain Technology Committee; or

      B.  you are a participant in a Revision or Finalization Task Force
          currently revising an OMG Adopted Technology.

Your responses to this questionnaire will help the OMG Business Committee
understand your product, usage or recommendation plans and licensing policies
in regards to your products implementing or using the specification that you
have proposed or revised (please see the Business Committee Annex to the
Request for Proposal for more information).

The Business Committee will use your answers to these questions to formulate
a recommendation to the OMG Board of Directors, which makes all final
decisions regarding OMG Adopted Technology.  Please respond as soon as
possible, but certainly before the deadline above, with statements outlining
the official position of your company with regards to products which
implement the specification you have submitted to the OMG.

Please be advised that the members of the Business Committee are not under
any sort of nondisclosure agreement with regards to your answers; they
nevertheless must provide the Board of Directors a recommendation based on
their opinion of the commercial availability of your implementation(s) of
proposed specifications so your support is appreciated.  The Business
Committee is comprised of OMG Board Member representatives or their alternates.

One of the functions of the Business Committee review of your answer to this
questionnaire is to grant 18-month veto power (on any Finalization or
follow-on Revision Task Forces regarding this specification).  If you do not
answer this questionnaire you will not be granted veto power.  If your
company is not granted veto power for any reason, your company may submit or
resubmit answers to this questionnaire up to 90 days after the final Board
vote for technology adoption for reconsideration by the Committee.

PLEASE NOTE that you do NOT need to send back this entire document, but only
the small form attached at the end (PART 3) and marked "(cut here)".

Thank you for your assistance.

Business Committee
OMG Board of Directors


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PART 1: INSTRUCTIONS
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If you are an original specification Submitter (Case A, above), please
complete Part 3 and email it to the OMG.

Otherwise, if you are an RTF/FTF Participant (Case B, above):

	a. If your company does not plan to make a commercial implementation
	   or to make any recommendations based on the support measures
	   of the RTF/FTF proposal, you need not respond to this Questionnaire
	   at all.  However, please see (c) below.

	b. If your company does plan to make such commercial implementation
	   or to make any recommendations based on the support measures,
	   and has previously submitted a valid Letter of Intent for the
	   technology currently under revision, please complete Part 3 and
	   email it to the OMG.

	c. Whether or not your company plans a commercial implementation
	   or to make any recommendations based on the support measures of
	   the revision you have participated in, if your company has not
	   submitted a valid Letter of Intent for the relevant technology
	   process, the Committee requires a Grant of Rights (see below),
	   signed by an executive director or corporate officer, granting
	   certain rights to OMG.  Please edit the letter below and send it,
	   signed by an executive director or corporate officer, to
	   Juergen Boldt at the address and fax number above.

Draft Grant of Rights:

This letter confirms the fact that <Organization Name> (the organization) has
participated as a voting member of the OMG Revision or Finalization Task
Force for <Revision Process Name>.  We grant OMG and its members the right to
copy the final revision report as necessary. Should our response be adopted
by OMG we will comply with the OMG Business Committee terms set out in the
Business Committee Annex to OMG Requests (document omg/98-03-01), and will
provide a worldwide, royalty free license to edit, store, duplicate and
distribute that text and any and all derivative works based on the final
revision report.

The signatory below is an officer of the organization and has the approval
and authority to make this commitment on behalf of the organization.



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PART 2: BUSINESS COMMITTEE QUESTIONNAIRE QUESTIONS
==========================================================================
Please answer these questions in the simple form found in PART 3.

1.      In accordance with your LOI, will you assign or license to OMG a
        worldwide, royalty free right to distribute the specification
        and/or support measures document, if adopted?

2.      In accordance with your LOI, will you grant OMG the right to develop
        and distribute derivative works based on the specification and/or
	support measures documents, if adopted?

3.      Product/Implementation Identification:

        (a) What is or will be the name of your implementation or service?

        (b) On what operating systems and/or environments will it be
            supported?

        (c) Will this implementation be commercially available or only used
            by end-user organizations as part of their businesses?

4.	If your organization plans to create an implementation or offer a
	service based on this specification, in what calendar quarter and
	year will your implementation or service be available in beta form?
	Otherwise, if your organization plans only to use implementations or
	services based on this specification, in what calendar quarter and
	year will your first test deployment or use of the service be fielded?

5.	If your organization plans to create an implementation or offer a
	service based on this specification, in what calendar quarter and
	year will your implementation or service be generally available, that
	is, in final form? Otherwise, if your organization plans only to use
	implementations or services based on this specification, in what
	calendar quarter and year will implementations or services based on
	the specification be used as part of your organization's business?

6.      Intellectual Property Rights: In accordance with your LOI:

        (a) Are there any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual
            property rights, owned by you or others, that are required in
            order to implement or use the specification or support measures?
	    If your answer is "no," please skip the rest of this section.

        (b) If such rights are required, do you believe that an appropriate
            non-discriminatory license is available for these rights?

        (c) If you own the required rights, will you license these rights
            on non-discriminatory and commercially reasonable terms?

	(d) If you own the required rights, will you license these rights
	    on a royalty-free basis?

7.      Provide the email address of a person to be notified of the
        Business Committee's and OMG Board's decisions, or to be queried
        about any changes in the company's plans regarding use or
	implementation of this technology.

8.      If you wish, you may provide a Web URL for interested parties to
	follow to find out more information about your implementation or
	services based on this specification.  This URL will be listed on the
	specification and services availability Web page at OMG.  Additional
	information you may want to make available at this URL might include
	(but would not have to be limited to):

        (a) which conformance points of the specification your implementation
            implements, or your service recommends

        (b) your company's role in regard to the implemented products, which
            may include such items as development, porting, licensing,
            supporting, distributing, embedding in other products, testing,
            training, extending, marketing or using the products.

        (c) Further details concerning the platforms and/or operating
            systems used by your implementation(s) or service(s)

        (d) Terms and restrictions under which you will license products
            and/or services based on the specification.  You may also
            discuss your plans and infrastructure for support, bug fixes,
            source licensing and continued development. You may also
            discuss collateral business or development being done by you
            or others in support of the specification.

        (e) If you claimed IPR rights, the terms under which these
            patents, copyrights or trademarks are available

        (f) How a potential customer finds out more about your products
            which implement the specification.



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PART 3: BUSINESS COMMITTEE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE FORM
==========================================================================
All respondents must fill in the following short form answering the
questions outlined in Part 2.  Please respond to these questions and email
ONLY THIS RESPONSE FORM to Juergen Boldt (juergen@omg.org).

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Relating to Process:   <process name>
Responding Company:    <company name>

1.   YES    NO  [delete as appropriate]
2.   YES    NO  [delete as appropriate]
3.   [please answer all three parts]
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5.
6.
7.
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