It's about integration. It's about interoperability. For eleven years, the Object Management Group (OMG) has focused on making sure that you can integrate what you've built, with what you're building, with what you're going to build. As the pace of technology continues to quicken, and the demands of integrating your existing legacy systems, your new intranet, and your e-business fall on your shoulders, you need an architecture that makes interoperability central to your infrastructure. The bad news is that there will never be a single operating system, single programming language, or single network architecture that replaces all that has passed; the good news is that you can still manage to build systems economically in this environment.