The Rise and Fall of Corba

ChelleChelle writes "Chief scientist of ZeroC, Michi Henning, has an interesting look at the story behind CORBA a once-promising distributed computing technology. Henning provides more than a brief history, in addition to several reasons pinpointing why CORBA fell short, focusing specifically on the OMG's technology adoption process itself. Most interesting is the final discussion on what we can learn from CORBA's decline, particularly in reference to web services."

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Re:CORBA.

[Zero__Kelvin]

CORBA might have been a great messaging infrastructure and all, but any corba websites I saw were confusing,

The problem you are experiencing might be that you have absolutely no idea what CORBA is ... it is the Common Object Request Brokerage Architecture, and his quite literally nothing to do with Websites :-)