Dell is joining a growing list of vendors that want to develop their own standard for software-defined networking (SDN), and perhaps dilute the influence of customer-led standards in the data center. Last week, the nonprofit Object Management Group (OMG) said Dell intends to create an OMG committee on SDN. The Dell news follows rumored moves by Cisco, Citrix, HP and other vendors to sponsor or contribute to a new consortium code-named Project Daylight.