Legacy Transformation Working Group Forms, Draws Number of New OMG Members

Needham, MA, USA - July 22, 2003- The Object Management Group(tm) (OMG(tm)) announces the newly formed Legacy Transformation Working Group signifying a growing trend toward legacy transformation software. Since its formation at the Paris OMG Technical Meeting in June 2003, the group has attracted seven new members including ArtinSoft, eCube Systems LLC, Micro Focus, SoftwareMining, Stryon, Inc., Tactical Strategy Group, Inc., and Transoft. Long-time members klocwork, Inc., Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom/T Systems and Sandia National Labs are also contributing to the group's efforts.

The working group's major goal is to create standards for legacy transformation, defined as the process of understanding and evolving existing software assets. By creating legacy transformation standards, users can begin to extend the life of their software assets, subsequently increasing ROI. This will enable interoperability between different tool vendors, while ensuring that software, once transformed, will be again transformable in the future (future proofing). Standardization will ensure that end users are investing not just in individual tools but rather into a coordinated strategy.

"We are committed to providing a proven, standards-based approach, to take investments made in existing software applications and make them future proof," said the group's co-chair Djenana Campara, Chief Technology Officer of klocwork, Inc. "This approach will help individual businesses and the entire software industry by reducing the risks of undertaking software improvement initiatives, as well as the time, risk and cost of software transformations."

To achieve their goals, the group plans to leverage existing OMG modeling standards including the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) to successfully transform and revitalize legacy applications. Ultimately, the standardization of legacy transformation will help the software industry and individual businesses by reducing the risks of undertaking software improvement initiatives, lessening time, risk and cost of software transformations while extending the ROI on software development tools.

"I am delighted and impressed to see the enormous support we are receiving from OMG toward the Legacy Transformation standardization effort. It is an honor for me representing Stryon Inc. to co-chair this significant standard body. Our mission is to provide an open, model based approach toward the revitalization of the vast amount of legacy applications existing globally," remarked Co-Chair Don Hsi, Chief Technology Officer of Stryon, Inc.

At the next OMG Technical Meeting in Boston, MA, USA, September 8-12, 2003, the Legacy Transformation Working Group will work on a draft Request for Proposals for legacy software transformation and design recovery, soliciting the industry's first standards in this increasingly important area of software engineering. Members and guests are encouraged to attend the meeting. You may register for the Boston Technical Meeting at https://www.omg.org/registration.htm.

To learn more about the Legacy Transformation Working Group, visit http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-LT-whitepaper.htm to access the group's new whitepaper.

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