DEC has jumped off the fence and decided to join the Object Management Group as a corporate member. The Group, in which Hewlett-Packard Co and Data General Corp are founder members and leading lights, is dedicated to developing standards and guidelines for implementing object oriented systems and programming. As a corporate member with a seat on the board, DEC will help oversee policies and participate in approving proposals by the Technical Committee. DEC says that object orientation is present today in a number of its Network Application Support services and products such as its CDD+ repository, the DECdecision product for advanced decision support, the DECwrite publishing program for DECwindows workstations, and the Trellis language. Separately, DEC announced that it had signed a five-year agreement with with the State University of New York to provide $30m to $50m of computers and related products, for administration, academic and research computing.
