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NEEDHAM, Mass., Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the OMG(TM) 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.

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The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following specifications (including finalizations and revisions):

• Ada Language Mapping 1.3 RTF
• Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel 1.0 (ASTM) FTF
• Lightweight Fault Tolerance for Distributed Real-time Systems Submission
• Shared Operational Picture Exchange Services (SOPES) Information Exchange Data Model (IEDM) Submission
• 2nd Phenotype and Genotype Object Model (PAGE-OM) FTF
• Systems Modeling Language (SysML) 1.2 RTF
• Model Driven Message Interoperability Submission

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.

• Data Distribution Service (DDS) for CORBA Component Model (CCM) FTF Report
• MOF Query / Views / Transformation (QVT) 1.1 RTF Report
• SoaML FTF Report
• 2nd MOF Facility and Object Lifecycle FTF Report
• CORBA Bindings for WSDL FTF Report
• UML 2.3 RTF Report
• Decision Support Service Submission
• Ground Equipment Management Service (GEMS) RTF Report

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.

• Records Management Services Version 2 RFP
• UML Specification Simplification RFP
• Common Variability Language (CVL) RFP
• Java 5 Language PSM for Data Distribution Service (DDS) RFP
• MOF to Resource Description Framework Structural Mapping in Support of Linked Open Data RFP

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.

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(TM) (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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