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Microsoft joins Object Management Group


By David Worthington
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September 11, 2008 —  On Tuesday, Microsoft joined Object Management Group (OMG), changing its view on a principal modeling language and underscoring its strategic commitment to model-driven development (MDD).

OMG is a non-profit industry consortium that oversees Business Process Management Notation and Unified Modeling Language (UML). As recently as 2006, Microsoft had refused to endorse UML, saying it was “too general.”

The company promises to take an active role in OMG working groups, assisting in work to develop standards and engaging in open dialogs with the rest of the industry.

Microsoft’s position evolved after it announced its "Oslo" initiative, a multi-year effort to develop new technology that helps customers build, deploy, design and manage composite applications. Its primary objective is to take MDD into the mainstream of application development.

During a June interview, Steven Martin, director of product management in Microsoft’s connected systems division, said that Microsoft was developing an XML-based foundational modeling language that is designed to be interoperable with domain-specific modeling languages as well as BPEL and UML.

Microsoft has said that it will standardize that language, which, according to Martin, it will detail at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of October.

“They [Microsoft] are altering their tack,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. “In the end, Microsoft is nothing if not practical, and joining the OMG is a good business decision for them and in keeping with other recent decisions like becoming a sponsor of the Apache foundation.”

He observed that Microsoft has a “good track record” of listening to their developers and architects, and that .NET users have been explicit about they desire for better, standardized modeling tools.

Microsoft’s decision to join OMG is good news because the industry can now move forward with modeling instead of engaging in debates about the usefulness of UML vs. domain-specific languages and three stage model-driven architecture vs. N-stage MDD, Hammond added. He also said that a real need exists for a new generation of easy-to-use modeling tools that take SOA, RIA and Web 2.0 into account.

In a prepared statement, Bob Muglia, senior vice president Microsoft’s server and tools business, said that modeling was going to be built in as a core part of the company’s application platform. He noted that Microsoft believes modeling will help make IT more dynamic, helping business analysts, developers and systems architects to work together more effectively to create and maintain applications.




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