Interactive Objects elected to a seat on the OMG Board of Directors

Freiburg, December 2, 2004. Interactive Objects, one of the pioneers in Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) technology, today announces that its CEO, Erich Gerber, has been elected to the Object Management Group’s™ (OMG™) Board of Directors for the period of 2005 to 2007. The OMG is an international standardization organization with over 600 members worldwide and owns standards for software engineering such as CORBA®, UML® or MDA. Interactive Objects joins the Board together with representatives from companies like SUN, IBM, BEA Systems or HP.

"Interactive Objects has a long-term and successful relationship with the OMG, implementing technologies like CORBA and UML in real world projects from day one, and have been able to provide valuable customer feedback to the OMG standardization process in return”, outlines Erich Gerber, CEO of Interactive Objects, and new OMG Board Member. “We are fully aware of our responsibility in this important position and we are delighted and privileged to be able to participate and invest more time in the steering efforts of the OMG and of Model Driven Architecture in particular."

"OMG is pleased to welcome Erich Gerber to its Board of Directors. Companies such as Interactive Objects, whose commitment spans over a decade to OMG standards and the OMG process, have been essential to moving MDA and other OMG standards into the forefront of respected solutions to creating and maintaining interoperability amongst mainstream technologies. With Erich’s keen vision, I am confident that his contributions will be beneficial to our organization," remarked Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group.

Besides the regular duties of a Board of Directors, it is also the final decision maker in the OMG’s Technology Adoption Process, which is responsible to drive the OMG standards for software engineering.

About Interactive Objects
Interactive Objects Software GmbH has built a solid reputation as a front-runner in the field of IT consulting and innovative software development platforms such as the ArcStyler. Ever since its foundation in 1990, the company has consistently focused on architecture, design and implementation of object-oriented, component-based software systems. Backed by over a decade of successful project work, Interactive Objects is a competent partner in IT projects from analysis to implementation and the practical use of Model Driven Architecture®.

ArcStyler®, a leading and proven software development platform for Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), is a cross-platform, pure Java, standards-compliant, seamless environment for the rapid design, modeling, generation, deployment and management of high-quality, industrial strength applications of any size for standard architectures such as Java/J2EE and .NET as well as custom infrastructures and any type of legacy platform.