No sign of IBM joining the Object Management Group – but that doesn’t mean that the company is not interested – it has object management coming out of its ears with no fewer than six groups – including the RS/6000 group, the AS/400 group, the Systems Application Architecture team, the Entry Level Systems group and IBM Europe – working away on it and squabbling among themselves about what exactly object oriented programming means – word is that they are observing Object Management Group meetings closely to try to reach an internal decision on what it all does mean.