OMG Model Driven Architecture Named Significant Technology Trend by PricewaterhouseCoopers; MDA highlighted in PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Forecast: 2002-2004

Business Wire, June 4, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002

The Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture(TM) (OMG MDA(TM)) has been named as a key trend in the software industry by PricewaterhouseCoopers in the recently published Technology Forecast: 2002-2004, Volume 1: Navigating the Future of Software. The Technology Forecast reports that OMG MDA is poised to revolutionize the software design and development process. MDA will reach this goal by providing a unique solution of creating platform independent applications for new projects as well as addressing integration issues in legacy systems.

Published by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Technology Centre (a part of PwC's Global Thought Leadership organization) in Menlo Park, CA, USA, the Technology Forecast provides detailed information and insights about developments in information technology that are used by global decision-makers to anticipate change and plan accordingly.

"OMG is proud to receive recognition for MDA as being a highly strategic trend in the software development community. As OMG members continue to produce industry-specific, as well as widely-applicable MDA standards, look for wider implementation---it is clearly the way to go in order to solve enterprise application integration problems effectively," remarked Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group.

Dozens of companies have publicly announced support for MDA including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Rational, IONA, and Borland. In addition, over 30 companies have products available that utilize the MDA methodology to effectively solve problems. To see a complete list, go to http://www.omg.org/mda/products_success.htm. For more information on the OMG MDA, visit www.omg.org/mda.

For more information about the PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Forecast: 2002-2004, visit www.pwcglobal.com/tech-forecast.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly-growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at +1-781-444 0404, by fax at +1-781-444 0320, or by email at info@omg.org. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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