Object Management Group

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Object Management Group
OMG

   <body> (OMG) 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 February 1998, the
   latest standard is CORBA 2.2.

   (http://omg.org/).

   [David S. Linthicum, DBMS, January 1997]

   (1999-02-02)