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."

Comments

Where comes the Sun ... ????

[Zero__Kelvin]

FTA:

CORBA 2.0 in 1997. ... CORBA's future looked rosy indeed.

I was learning CORBA in 1997. Alas, it was another Sun driven technlogy, like Java, before Sun understood how the technology landscape was changing. The only FOSS CORBA implementation that came anywhere close to implementing CORBA 2.0 was Orbit, and I do not know if the developers didn't have the chops, or (more likely) they were swimming upstream against a Sun that was still either hostile to OSS or simply wrote it off as a non-factor. In the end CORBA suffered the same fate as Java for the same reason(s).

You can still use both .... but why would you?

CORBA could *easily* be revived if Sun finally grasped the revolution in the market and decided to do so. Will they? Seeing as .NET/MONO is the only real competitor, they have an obligation to the community to do so IMNSHO. Will Sun step up to the plate and figure out that they have a very real obligation to the future? Hmmm ....

BTW .. OMG was just a Sun directed organization ....

Re:One man's simplicity...

[Cyberax]

EJB 2.0 is just a part of CORBA 3.0 specification :) So it's easy to understand why there is no a single CORBA 3.0 implementation.