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== History ==
[[File:OMG Headquarters.jpeg|thumb|OMG Headquarters]]
Founded in 1989 by eleven companies (including [[Hewlett-Packard Company|Hewlett-Packard]], [[IBM]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Apple Computer]], [[American Airlines]], iGrafx, and [[Data General]]), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous [[Distributed computing|distributed]] [[object (computing)|object]] standard. The founding executive team included Christopher Stone and John Slitz. Current leadership includes Chairman and CEO [[Richard Soley]], President and COO Bill Hoffman and Vice President and Technical Director Jason McMcC. Smith.
 
Since 2000, the group's international headquarters has been located in [[NeedhamBoston, Massachusetts|NeedhamBoston]], [[Massachusetts]].
 
In 1997, the [[Unified Modeling Language]] (UML) was added to the list of OMG adopted technologies. UML is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering.