JON SIEGEL, PhD, is Director of Domain Technology at the OMG where he chairs the Domain Technology Committee which sets OMG specifications for vertical markets. He is a frequent speaker about the OMG at conferences and symposia around the world, and works closely with international standards groups, industry consortia, and the end–user community to promote the use of OMG specifications as industry standards.
Contributors include: Dan Frantz, PhD, Digital Equipment Corporation; Hal Mirsky, Expersoft Corporation; Raghu Hudli, PhD, IBM Corporation; Alex Thomas and Wilf Coles, ICL; Peter de Jong, PhD, Alan Klein, and Brent Wilkins, Hewlett–Packard, Inc.; Sean Baker, PhD, IONA Corporation; Maurice Balick, SunSoft, Inc.