diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..180e714b81e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/omniorb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python }:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name = "omniorb-${version}";
+
+  version = "4.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl rec {
+    url = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/omniorb/files/omniORB/omniORB-${version}/omniORB-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1g58xcw4641wyisp9wscrkzaqrz0vf123dgy52qq2a3wk7y77hkl";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ python ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "omniORB is a robust high performance CORBA ORB for C++ and Python. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (for the libraries), and GNU General Public License (for the tools). omniORB is largely CORBA 2.6 compliant.";
+    homepage    = "http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/";
+    license     = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ smironov ];
+    platforms   = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 81700f146691..6680cf8233b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5630,6 +5630,8 @@ let
   omake = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/omake { };
   omake_rc1 = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/omake/0.9.8.6-rc1.nix { };
 
+  omniorb = callPackage ../development/tools/omniorb { };
+
   opengrok = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/opengrok { };
 
   openocd = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/openocd { };