body (OMG) A consortium aimed at setting standards in

object-oriented programming. In 1989, this consortium,

which included IBM Corporation, Apple Computer Inc. and

Sun Microsystems Inc., mobilised to create a

cross-compatible distributed object standard. The goal was a

common binary object with methods and data that work using all

types of development environments on all types of platforms.

Using a committee of organisations, OMG set out to create the

first Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

standard which appeared in 1991. As of February 1998, the

latest standard is CORBA 2.2.