TINA & Standards

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: server@omg.org

- Richard Soley: soley@omg.org

http://www.omg.org/~soley/tina2000.ppt