Object Management Group (
OMG) is a
consortium[?] aimed at setting
standards in
object-oriented programming. In
1989, this consortium,
which included
IBM Corporation,
Apple Computer Inc. and
Sun Microsystems Inc., mobilised to create a
cross-compatible[?] distributed[?] object standard. The goal was a
common
binary object with methods and data that work using all
types of development environments on all types of platforms.
Using a committee of organisations, OMG set out to create the
first Common Object Request Broker Architecture (
CORBA)
standard which appeared in 1991. As of March 2003, the
latest standard is CORBA 3.0
OMG also created the now defunct OpenDoc standard for compound documents.
http://www.omg.org/
[David S. Linthicum, DBMS, January 1997]
Article based on Object Management Group (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=object+management+group) at FOLDOC (http://www.foldoc.org), used with permission.