OMG Announces Morgan Kaufmann Publishers as Official ''OMG Press'' Publisher

Business Wire, July 20, 2005

NEEDHAM, Mass -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced that Morgan Kaufmann (MK) will be its exclusive publishing partner, with a line of books addressing business and technical topics related to OMG's large suite of standards in both infrastructure and vertical market areas. The "OMG Press(TM)" imprint will feature books about OMG's Model Driven Architecture(R), CORBA(R) and other business model and technical standards as well as standards in healthcare IT, financial systems, knowledge-based engineering, regulatory compliance, business process modeling/execution and business rules, and many other areas.

MK has more than two decades' experience in publishing the works of industry-leading researchers and professionals on a range of computer-related topics. MK will be working with OMG members, who represent some of the largest and most prestigious software companies in the world, to publish books about OMG's specifications including Model Driven Architecture (MDA(R)), UML(R) and CORBA. As part of the agreement, MK will provide discounts on future OMG Press technical publications to all OMG members.

"OMG standards, educational programs and certification efforts touch every area of information systems from the CIO's office to developers," said Dr. Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of OMG. "This agreement guarantees a consistent stream of books that focuses on all of those areas, backed by the organization that defines, manages and owns the standards. With access to the OMG members that actually write the standards and other leading experts on the subjects, the OMG Press line will feature books that belong on every IT professional's bookshelf. We believe that Morgan Kaufmann, with their years of technical publishing experience and worldwide exposure, is ideally suited to bring OMG-branded publications to market."

"We're excited to be working with OMG," said Tim Cox, senior editor at Morgan Kaufmann. "OMG has a long tradition of developing standards with its membership in an open and accessible manner. This allows them to respond creatively to new challenges in software development, such as the domain-specific concerns, which are now a driving force. Our goal with OMG Press is to help managers and developers understand and use the next generation of OMG software standards."

Those interested in publishing opportunities should contact OMG at omgpress@omg.org or call 1-781-444 0404.

About Morgan Kaufmann

Morgan Kaufmann works with leading computer scientists to publish books for researchers, professionals and students in computer architecture and engineering, databases, networking, graphics and gaming, human-computer interaction and software engineering. Many MK titles are known as the definitive works in their fields.

Based in San Francisco, the company was founded in 1984 in Silicon Valley by Michael Morgan with Nils J. Nilsson, professor of computer science at Stanford University, and respected publishing veteran William Kaufmann. Since 2001, MK has been part of the Science and Technology Division of Elsevier, the world's leading publisher for the scientific, technical and medical communities.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA(R), include the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(R)) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)). CORBA(R), the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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