Darmstadt-based Software AG is to re-engineer the Open Service Broker element of its Entire software products to conform to the Object Management Group’s Common Request Broker Architecture specifications. Entire includes the Adabas database management system, Natural proprietary language, and networking technology. The service broker did not conform to Object Group specifications when it was launched earlier this year – version 2.0 will be out late next year. The company says it is currently working to ensure compatibility between the two releases. Software AG may be using the HD-DOMS technology of HyperDesk Corp as the vehicle to achieve Object Group compatibility – the German company is expected to announce this month that it will provide interoperability between the Entire broker and the HD-DOMS object broker next month – although the Westborough, Massachusetts-based company would not comment. Object Group president Chris Stone said Software AG would certainly be able to bring a product to market much more quickly if it were to use the Object Group-compliant HD-DOMS for the task. The gateway between the two brokers will provide Software AG’s mainframe applications with access to Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant objects in Windows or Unix applications through HD-DOMS.
