OMG Expands Marketing Department, Stephanie Covert Joins as New Marketing Communications Manager

Business Wire, March 23, 2005

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group (OMG(TM)), a software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing specifications, has expanded its Marketing Department with the addition of Stephanie Covert as Marketing Communications Manager.

In her new role, Ms. Covert will be responsible for promoting OMG, its standards such as MDA(R), UML(R) and CORBA(R), and its many members to the press and analyst communities. Prior to joining OMG, Ms. Covert spent three years at a Boston-area high-tech public relations firm, where she specialized in security and application development companies. Subsequently, she served as Public Relations Manager for an e-commerce marketplace developer, a shipping logistics and ERP company, and a rapid application development company. She is a resident of Pawtucket, RI.

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) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM(TM)). CORBA, 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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