OMG creates new special interest groups to promote object technology.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 1995--In response to end user community needs, the Object Management Group has created a Security Special Interest Group (SIG) to promote security requirements in OMG adopted specification, and has also chartered a Financial Special Interest Group (SIG) to examine how distributed object computing can benefit the financial community.

"As the world's largest software development consortium, OMG has a responsibility to ensure that specifications are developed with strict adherence to the end users' needs," stated Lydia Bennett, director of marketing, OMG. "Our members are greatly concerned with global issues, such as security, in distributed object computing, and as a result we've created new Special Interest Groups to give them a forum to develop horizontal requirements as well as vertical requirements."

Security SIG

The newly created Security SIG reports in to OMG's Technical Committee and is chartered with the following tasks:

o developing end user security requirements

o promoting an understanding of how security can support

business needs

o collaborating with OMG SIGs and Task Forces to incorporate

generic security requirements into vertical markets and

specific technologies

Financial SIG

OMG's Technical Committee created the Financial SIG to promote distributed object computing in the financial community. Their goals are to:

o promote an understanding and the use of OMG specifications in

the financial industry

o ensure OMG standards for portability and interoperability in

distributed object computing adhere to end user requirements

for financial services 

o develop a White Paper identifying distributed object

computing needs specific to financial services.

OMG SIGs

OMG SIGs are working groups of the Technical Committee designed to focus on a specific horizontal or vertical market and how distributed object computing can solve the business needs of that market. Additional SIGs include: End User, Business Object Management, Manufacturing, Analysis and Design, Parallel Object Systems, Healthcare, Class Libraries, Telecommunications, Databases, Smalltalk and PCTE. Participation in OMG SIGs is open to all OMG Associate, Corporate and End User Members. SIGs meet in conjunction with the OMG Technical Committee and will hold their next meetings Jan. 23-27 in Santa Cruz, Calif.

If you would like information on joining any of OMG's SIGs or attending an OMG meeting as an invited guest, please contact Lydia Bennett by phone at: 508/820-4300, by fax at: 508/820-4303, or by email at: bennett(at)omg.org.

About OMG

OMG is the world's largest software development consortium with a membership of over 480 software vendors, software developers and end users. Established in 1989, its mission is to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architecture framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. OMG is headquartered in Framingham, Mass., USA, and has international marketing offices in the UK, Germany and Japan. For information on joining OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at 508/820-4300, by fax at 508/280-4303, or by email at: info(at)omg.org.

CONTACT: Object Management Group

Kelley Lynn Kassa, 508/820-4300