What does MDC stand for?

Meta Data Coalition (non-profit group of vendors/users of metadata)

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The Meta Data Coalition says that's not case and says that the two groups have been working together for the last nine months to try and converge their standards.

Is War Over Meta Data Standards Looming?

25, 2000 Today, the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) and the Object Management Group (OMG), two industry organizations with competing data warehousing standards, jointly announced that the MDC will merge into the OMG.

Competing Data Warehousing Standards to Merge in the OMG

But CWMI supporters Hyperion and NCR - though its Teradata division - are both also active members of the Meta Data Coalition.

New Metadata Standards Proposal Could Challenge Microsoft

Microsoft Corp has joined the Meta Data Coalition (MDC), a consortium of 47 software vendors and corporations, and has transferred to the MDC the rights to its Open Information Model (OIM).

MICROSOFT JOINS METADATA COALITION, SUPPORTS XMI

Integration between the two products is made possible by using the Meta Data Interchange Specification (MDIS), developed by the Meta Data Coalition to provide accurate and efficient sharing of information.

ETI integrates ETI-EXTRACT with Logic Works Universal Directory; ...