The Object Management Group in Framingham, Massachusetts has issued a new Request for Information to solicit documentation of object technologies in the areas of object-oriented analysis and design methodologies and tools, to help the Group define its technical direction in these areas. It is at present soliciting information only on object analysis and design methodologies. Areas of interest are application development life cycles; object analysis and design methodologies where a methodology is defined as a process and a set of associated objects resulting in systems conforming to the Object Model; analysis and design objects; and tools to support any of these. It wants white papers with an electronic version in MS Word, PostScript or ASCII.