Microsoft courting OMG again
eWeek | at | by Mike
After years of bitter battles with the Object Management Group, Microsoft may be poised to rejoin the consortium to make use of the OMG's architecture expertise. Unisys Corp. has been brokering a thaw in the relationship between Microsoft and the Needham, Mass., standards body that had become strained while Microsoft was still a member of the group, said sources. The two sides effectively parted ways in the late 1990s over the OMG's support for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, which competed with Microsoft's Component Object Model for a standard distributed computing model.