As object technology is adopted by software systems for analysis and design, language, GUI, and frameworks, the database community also is working to support objects, and to develop standards for that support. A key benefit of object technology is the ability for different objects and object tools to interoperate, so it's critical that such DBMS object standards interoperate with those of the rest of the object world. Starting with a discussion of the new issues objects bring to query standards, we present the efforts of various groups relevant to this, including ODMG, OMG, ANSI X3H2 (SQL3), and recent merger efforts feeding into SQL3. What's different with Objects? ODMG's OQL OMG's Query Service SQL3's Object extensions Efforts to merge