Object Management Group Sample Clauses

Object Management Group. The Object Management Group (OMG) is an “international, not-for-profit computer in- dustry standards consortium”, whose mission is to develop, with the help of its members, “enterprise integration standards that provide real-world value” [4]. The OMG was founded in 1989 by 11 companies, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Apple, and now boasts a membership of over 800. At its founding, the OMG set out to create a standard—the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)—to allow software components written in different languages and running on different computers to commu- nicate with each other. Since then, it has branched out into many other fields, including software modelling where it has chalked up a number of successes, most notably the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standards. There now follows a brief review of the most important standards.