Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Object Management Group, Inc.
Systems integration -- interoperability, sharing of
data and leveraging of enterprise system assets -- is the key activity of most MIS/IT
departments around the world.
The need for simpler, more maintainable integration was the impetus for the de facto
standard CORBA specification, as well as other systems integration standards such as
Microsoft's DCOM. The key focus of CORBA has been integration "across the
enterprise" -- from supercomputers to mainframes to desktops to embedded systems.
Can the same integration approach extend equally well to the real-time environment?
Dr. Soley will explore how the industry can agree on an approach to real-time object
computing, and look at attempts to do so in the industry so far.