UML Partners was a consortium of system integrators and vendors convened in 1996 to specify the

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(UML). Initially the consortium was led by Grady Booch,

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, and

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(OMG) in January 1997. During the same month the UML Partners formed a Semantics Task Force, chaired by

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, to finalize the semantics of the specification and integrate it with other standardization efforts. The result of this work, UML 1.1, was submitted to the OMG in August 1997 and adopted by the OMG in November 1997.

Member list

Members of the consortium include: *

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* i-Logix *

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

* ICON Computing * IntelliCorp * MCI Systemhouse *

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* ObjecTime *

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* Platinum Technology * Ptech *

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* Reich Technologies * Softeam *

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2001: A Standardization Odyssey
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