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There's a standard that has OMG as the acronym? OMG. I'm not even going to bother to search for that!
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Object Management Group I think. Better known as the inventors of UML.
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Also BPMN, CORBA and UPOS/JavaPOS.

It's funny that you can legitimately just add " - OMG!" in the slang acronym meaning after any of its creations' names.

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UML was phase two of OMG. It originally developed CORBA.
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"The horror, the horror."
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Forgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile?

I only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice.

I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?

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Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.
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CORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.
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omg is retarded
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