SCO today announced it has teamed up with the Object Management Group (OMG) and several major retailers to form a Retail Working Group. The objective is to initiate the process of defining object-oriented standards for development and integration of retail applications for an open architected network computing environment.
"The Working Group was formed at the OMG meeting in Philadelphia in March and is holding its second meeting at the Retail Systems 1999 show. Aimed at encouraging additional retailers and system vendors to join the group and participate in the standardization effort, OMG has an exhibit in SCO`s booth # 1629
"Open standards have always been key to SCO`s product strategy," said Richard Treadway, vice president of Segment Marketing and Business Development. "Our Network Computing Retail Architecture provides vendor-independent standards to retail solutions. Object-oriented standards will play an important role moving forward, and as such we are pleased to participate in and support the OMG Retail Working Group."
"The retail community has become more active in implementing standards for interoperability," said Richard Soley, OMG`s CEO and chairman. "We are happy to see SCO, a major supplier of operating systems for the retail industry, taking the lead with us in efforts to develop these standards. Top retailers are using specifications such as CORBA, the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)) and the Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP(TM)) to develop a standards based approach toward building retail-oriented, enterprise-wide distributed applications. As retail and software companies get involved in the OMG`s open, neutral, consensus-driven process, the end result will be standards that support best-of-breed systems interoperability across the distributed retail enterprise."
Mike Anderson, Home Depot`s Vice President of the IS Technology Group said, "Home Depot is pleased to join with SCO, OMG and other top retailers to participate in the effort to develop object management standards for the retail industry. This will help establish standards making it easy to interoperate with other retail partners such as distributors, transportation ompanies, vendors, suppliers and many others."
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OMG
With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG`s CORBA is "The Middleware That`s everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and ractice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications.
The OMG is headquartered in Framingham, MA, USA and has international marketing offices in Bahrain, Brazil, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, India and he UK, along with a healthcare representative in Pelham, AL, USA and a .S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. Additionally, the OMG s a sponsor of Ziff-Davis Trade Shows and Conferences in this technology area.
SCO
SCO is the world`s number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider o network computing software that enables clients of ll kinds including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world`s first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs.
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