TINA & Standards
Richard M. Soley
Chairman & CEO, OMG
Overheard Yesterday:
Reality is Quite Different
• The TINA-C structure that exists today will no longer exist on 1 January 2001.
• The International Scientific Community will shepherd the concepts in future.
• TINA has succeeded in changing/organizing the model
• Now comes the hard part!
A Short History of TINASemi-outsider’s view: 1
Phase 1: The Core Team
A Short History of TINASemi-outsider’s view: 2
Phase 1: The Core Team
Phase 2: The Consolidation
A Short History of TINASemi-outsider’s view: 3
Phase 1: The Core Team
Phase 2: The Consolidation
Phase 3: Scientific Community
A Short History of TINASemi-outsider’s view: 3
Phase 1: The Core Team
Phase 2: The Consolidation
Phase 3: Scientific Community
Transition to standards & to products:
OMG, TMF, ITU-T, etc.
What is the OMG Vision?
The Global Information Appliance
The Business Model
Shipping/ Receiving Inventory
Engineering
Manufacturing
Accounting
Payables/ Receivables
Sales
Every application is part of your business model;you must make them work together!
The Problem
Constructing information-sharing distributed systems from diverse sources:
– heterogeneous
– networked
– physically disparate
– multi-vendor
OMG’s Mission
Develop a single architecture, using object technology, for distributed application integration, guaranteeing:
– reusability of components;
– interoperability & portability;
– basis in commercially available software.
Focus on swiftly-developed, easily usable (“off the shelf”) component standards.
OMG: Background
World’s largest software industry consortium.
Founded April 1989, has run over 150 processes.
Small staff (32 full time); no internal development.
Sponsors worldwide Ziff-Davis trade shows and 101 Communications magazines.
Dedicated to creating and popularizing object-oriented standards for application integration based on existing technology, integrating past, present and future technologies.
Worldwide Scope
2AB
Alcatel
AOL
AT&T
BEA Systems
BT
CA
Citigroup
Compaq
Concept 5
CSELT
Deutsche Telekom
Ericsson
EURESCOM
France Telecom
Fujitsu
HP
Hitachi
Inprise
IBM
ICL
IONA
John Deere
Lucent
Microsoft
MITRE
NCR
SAP
Siemens AG
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Telefonica
TRW
Unisys
US West
Vertel
Netgenics
Nortel
Novell
NTT
OASIS
Oracle
Peerlogic
Protoco
SAGA
Specification Availability
1. OMG adopts & publishes interfaces.
2. Interfaces must be commercially available or in use from OMG Contributing, Domain or Platform member.
3. Interfaces freely available to members and non-members alike.
4. Interfaces chosen from existing products in competitive selection process.
Technical Plenaries
Representatives of all member companies.
Determines direction of architecture & standards.
Meets every ten weeks.
Includes 3 plenary groups:
– Architecture Board– Platform Technology– Domain Technology
Leveraging Infrastructure
CORBA - UML - MOF
The OMG Process
Telecommunications, Healthcare, Finance, Electronic Commerce, Business Objects, Manufacturing, Transportation, Life Sciences, Utilities, Analytical Data Management, C4I, Customer Information Systems, Retail, Space Systems…….
Some Vertical Standards
• Manufacturing: Product Data Management (PDM), simulation, data acquisition, CAD services
• Insurance: risk management• Finance: general ledger, agreements• Transportation: air traffic control, road traffic systems,
flight planning, rail• Medical Systems: Person Identification, Lexicon, Record
Security, Image access• Life Sciences: human genome data, biomolecular
sequence analysis• Utilities: data access control
A Perhaps Interesting Vertical
• Telecommunications:– CORBA/TMN– CORBA/IN– logging– notification– wireless management– Service & Subscription this week!
Many more to come
• Analytical Data Management• Enterprise Customer Interaction
Systems• Retail Systems• Space/satellite systems• More to come!
Cooperative Vision
• Focus on consensus• Build on existing infrastructure• Leverage specifications built over our
first ten years history• Use existing technology where possible• Move quickly to fill openings• Enable portability and interoperability
But Back to TINA
• TINA-C & OMG have long cooperated:– CORBA as the backbone of the TINA DPE– OMGtelecom standards– strong impact on basic OMG standards
including UML and CORBA– even closer cooperation since
reorganization of TINA-C as an actual entity
OMG & TINA in Future
• TINA will continue to affect OMG standards (UML, CORBA, OMGtelecoms) for the forseeable future
• OMG offers to host TINA-ISC and other relevant meetings
• OMG is willing to help in the liaison efforts with other organizations
• But we need your participation!
How to Reach Us
Internet Resources:
- World Wide Web: http://www.omg.org
- Anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.omg.org
- Email archive server: [email protected]
- Richard Soley: [email protected]
http://www.omg.org/~soley/tina2000.ppt