Monday 1st February 2010 is the submission deadline for the OMG Real-time, Embedded and Enterprise-Scale Time-Critical Systems Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to identify the state of the art and disseminate current best practice in real-time and embedded distributed computing, for the benefit of standards users, researchers and implementers. For more details of the workshop, see the Call for Presentations: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2010/index.htm DDS users are particularly encouraged to submit; this workshop is one of the major annual gatherings of DDS users and implementers. The abstract submission form is here: http://www.omg.org/abstracts