[May 24, 2006]

OMG Announces Three Special Events to be held at Boston, MA Technical Meeting

NEEDHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- May 24, 2006 --

Events to Focus on OMG's Standards and Education Work in Regulatory Compliance, Service-Oriented Architecture and Software-Defined Radio; June 24-30, 2006

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced that it will hold three special events in conjunction with its June 24-30, 2006 Technical Meeting in Boston, Mass. The three events are open to the public with a completed registration. More information about the special events, "Commercial Software Defined Radio in 2006" Information Day, "Compliance GRID Preview" and "1994 to Today and Tomorrow - The SOA Roadmap" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Information Day may be found at

">http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-info.htm.

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]  "Commercial Software Defined Radio in 2006" Information Day
  Tuesday, June 27; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Software-defined radio (SDR) defines a family of common software-defined programmable interoperable radios built around a standard open architecture. During this Information Day, speakers from leading companies and organizations including Cisco, Motorola, PrismTech, Intel, Nokia, OMG, and IEEE will discuss technical, business, and industrial/military aspects of commercial SDR.


  "Compliance GRID Preview"
  Tuesday, June 27; 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

The OMG and the OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance (ORCA(TM)) will hold a private event for IT compliance and risk management executives to introduce and demonstrate the Compliance Global Regulatory Information Database (C-GRID(TM)), of which IBM (www.ibm.com) is a charter sponsor. The goal of C-GRID is to provide the de facto compliance reference guide for global IT managers. There is no charge to attend, but you must request and receive an invitation; enter your request at ">http://www.omg.org/registration/compliance.htm.


  "1994 to Today and Tomorrow - The SOA Roadmap" Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) Information Day
  Wednesday, June 28; 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Follow the journey from classical modeling and how it transformed from a practical service based approach and how companies are moving ahead in the use of Service Oriented Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, and BPEL orchestrations today. The Information Day will focus on best practices for creating an SOA strategy.

All special events will take place in the Hyatt Harborside Hotel. The early-bird registration deadline for the full Technical Meeting is May 30. The hotel reservation cut-off date is June 5. The fee for the "Commercial Software Defined Radio in 2006" Information Day and the "1994 to Today and Tomorrow - The SOA Roadmap" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Information Day is $150 US each. The "Compliance GRID Preview" is free to attend but requires that potential attendees apply for an invitation. For more information visit http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-info.htm.

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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