ADVISORY/''Middleware That Works'': OMG's Free Seminar Series Travels to Chicago, IL.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Sept. 18)

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003

Object Management Group--

WHAT:       "Middleware That Works" is OMG's nationwide seminar series
            focusing on CORBA's continuing popularity as a reliable
            integration platform. Experts will explain how CORBA(R)
            works with the Model Driven Architecture(R) and Web
            Services, and describe the variety of distributed
            applications that rely on CORBA today, ranging from small
            real-time and embedded systems to large enterprise-level
            servers working in telecommunications, finance,
            government, manufacturing, and other domains. OMG is
            hosting the event and will lead the day off with a
            presentation, "Middleware That Works," by its Chairman and
            CEO, Dr. Richard Soley. Other highlights include a
            presentation from industry analyst Karen Larkowski of The
            Standish Group, on the state of CORBA in the marketplace
            and sponsor case study presentations on how CORBA is being
            used in numerous critical applications today. 2AB,
            Borland, IONA and PrismTech are sponsoring the event.

ATTENDEES:  Middleware users in all industries; Companies in search of
            integration solutions; CORBA users desiring improved ROI
            and data on recent CORBA utilization; End Users and OEM's:
            Whether building in-house systems or packaged solutions
            for resale.

WHEN:       Thursday, September 18, 2003 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE:      Hilton Chicago
            720 South Michigan Avenue
            Chicago, IL 60605
            Tel: [phone]

COST:       No charge for attendance with lunch and coffee breaks
            included

REGISTER:   http://www.omg.org/middleware/index.htm

If you are a member of the press and would like to attend, contact Nancy Lenehan at [phone] or [e-mail].

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 standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.

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