The Object Management Group (OMG)

The Object Management Group, is a non-profit consortium created in 1989 with the purpose of promoting theory and practice of object technology in distributed computing systems. In particular, it aims to reduce the complexity, lower the costs, and hasten the introduction of new software applications. Originally formed by 13 companies, OMG membership grew to over 500 software vendors, developers and users.

OMG realizes its goals through creating standards which allow interoperability and portability of distributed object oriented applications. They do not produce software or implementation guidelines; only specifications which are put together using ideas of OMG members who respond to Requests For Information (RFI) and Requests For Proposals (RFP). The strength of this approach comes from the fact that most of the major software companies interested in distributed object oriented development are among OMG members.