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December 24, 1998 (TOKYO) -- The Consortium for Business Object Promotion
(CBOP) announced that it is teaming with the U.S. Object Management
Group (OMG).
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The CBOP has a membership that exceeds 100 companies, including key Japanese
software vendors, and the OMG has more than 800 corporate members.
The two organizations will reportedly extend reciprocal membership rights,
and plan to make concerted efforts to standardize business objects as
well as to improve the distribution of business objects.
Business objects refer to software components that can be reused as parts
of software programs utilized in business. Development periods can be
reduced when using libraries of business objects, and the overall efficiency
of maintenance can be enhanced.
The CBOP and the OMG agreed to five specific items, as follows:
(1) Members of each group are entitled to enjoy the other group's membership
status at the highest level, including the right to propose standard
specifications.
(2) In line with a meeting of the technical committee (TC Meeting) in
May 1999, the OMG will hold a joint workshop for standardization of
business objects in an alliance with the CBOP.
(3) The CBOP will seek to achieve widespread use in Japan of Unified
Modeling Language (UML) for analysis and design work, which was specified
by the OMG.
(4) The CBOP will join the OMG's Domain Task Force (DTF) as an equal-status
partner for promoting establishment of standard specifications for business
objects in each business sector and application field.
(5) The CBOP will be given a chance to make presentations on its activities
in the TC Meeting due to be held five times a year.
In addition, the groups have agreed to respect each other in terms of
standard specifications that have been adopted by either organization.
The CBOP
is a consortium founded in December 1997 by industry and academia to
distribute and promote the use of business objects in Japan. It is expected
that 113 companies will be registered with the CBOP in 1998.
The organization includes most key software vendors in Japan.
The OMG consists
of major U.S. companies, such as Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp., as well
as Japanese enterprises including NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Fujitsu
Ltd. Those Japanese corporate members also have a prominent role in
OMG operations.
(BizTech News Center)
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