Microsoft to join OMG

While Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) was a core objective for Microsoft for many years, the decision to not use the OMG standards in the modeling tools (with exception of Visio) for developers was always a topic for heated discussion. Like in all discussions there were pros and cons at the time for that decision and very often it was more a discussion driven by "religion" than by facts. Nevertheless, UML is a standard and with the evolution from UML1.0 to UML2.x there were many improvements that allow the development of targeted Domain Specific Models (DSMs) based on the OMG defined standard. Therefore, it is great to see that Microsoft announced today the plan to join the OMG with the goal to bring modeling main stream. It is a shift in thought and strategy, but I think it is a natural evolution and a victory of common sense to base the model driven software development strategy on an existing standard, as well as to working with the OMG to further evolve the standard. for the press release, click here.