X-Nvlenv-01Date-Posted:  9-Sep-1994 11:21:49 -0400; at jagger.omg
To: tc@omg.org, staff@omg.org
Subject: Press Release
From: kelley@jagger.omg.org (Kelley Kassa)
Date: 09 Sep 94 11:21:44 EDT

Dear TC Members:

This press release will be going out over Business Wire Monday morning.

Kelley
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Contact:                        
        Kelley Lynn Kassa
        Object Management Group
        +1-508-820 430
        kassa@omg.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COLLABORATION RESULTS IN OBJECT-BASED OLTP SPECIFICATION

Groupe Bull, IBM, ICL, IONA Technologies, Novell,
SunSoft, Tandem Computers, Tivoli Systems and Transarc Corporation 
jointly develop Object Transaction Service

Framingham, MA -- September 12, 1994 - The Object Management Group 
(OMG)announced today nine major on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and 
object technology(OT) vendors have jointly developed a specification for 
an Object Transaction Service.  
The collaboration by Groupe Bull, IBM, ICL Plc, IONA Technologies, Ltd., 
Novell, Inc.,SunSoft, Inc., Tandem Computers, Tivoli Systems and Transarc 
Corporation has been approved by OMG's Object Services Task Force and is 
progressing towards adoption into the Object Management Architecture 
(OMA).

"OLTP is a mission-critical aspect of corporate computing," stated Chris 
Stone, president, 
OMG.  "This Object Transaction Service will enable OLTP end users such as 
banks and airlines to reap the benefits of distributed object 
technology."

The Object Transaction Service will bring global desktop access to 
multi-vendor OLTP systems.  Transaction applications and data can be 
accessed by authorized users regardless of location.  The service will 
enable customers to save time and money through 
simpler transaction processing programming, which benefits from the 
reusability, portability and interoperability of distributed object 
computing.

The selected submission specifies transaction processing in a 
CORBA*-conformant and COSS* 1-conformant multi-vendor heterogeneous 
environment.  The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
Version 1.2 details portability for Objec
Request Brokers (ORBs*), while the Common Object Services Specification, 
Volume 1 (COSS 1) specifies Object Naming, Object Events and Object Life 
Cycles.  The Object Transaction Service will also be conformant with th
upcoming CORBA 2.0 specification, which details interface repository, 
initialization and interoperability.

The Object Services Task Force voted to recommend the proposal at 
recent OMG meeting in Dublin, Ireland.  The submission will now be voted 
on by the OMG Technical Committee (TC) and the Board of Directors.  Bot
the TC and the Board of Directors are expected to vote on the Object 
Transaction Service by the end of the year
Additional Object Services Recommended to the TC
OMG's Object Services Task Force also voted on the additional objec
services that will complete COSS* 2.  The Task Force has recommended 
Object Services on Concurrency, Relationships and Externalization.  
Transarc submitted the recommended Concurrency 
proposal, the Relationships submission was made by Groupe Bull, 
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Olivetti, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme and 
SunSoft, and the 
Externalization proposal was developed by IBM and SunSoft.
COSS 2 will be part of the Object Services section of the OMA.  OMG 
believes that wide-scale industry adoption of the OMA and its supporting 
interface specifications, such as CORBA and COSS will provide produc
developers and technology users alike with 
the means to build heterogeneous software systems distributed across all 
major hardware, operating systems and language environments.

OMG is the world's largest software development consortium with a 
membership of over 430 software vendors, software developers and end 
users.  Established in 1989, its mission is to promote the theory and 
practice of object technology for the development of distribute
computing systems.  The goal is to provide a common architectural 
framework 
for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface 
specifications. OMG is headquartered in Framingham, MA, USA, and has a 
Western office in Boulder, CO, USA, as well as international marketing 
offices in the UK, Germany and Japan.  For a list of OMG publications or 
additional information, please contact: +1-508-820 4300, fax +1
508-820 4303, or email: info@omg.org.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following companies submitted the Object Transaction 
Service:  Groupe Bull, IBM, 
ICL Plc, IONA Technologies, Ltd., Novell, Inc., SunSoft, Inc., Tandem 
Computers, Tivoli Systems and 
Transarc Corporation.

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Kelley Lynn Kass
Object Management Group
492 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, MA  01701
P:+1-508-820 430
F:+1-508-820 4303
E-Mail: kassa@omg.org