What planet have you been on? I'm actually an MS fan, but in this case, I have to say that you've missed the boat. CORBA and COM have little to do with one another. One is limited to a single machine (COM). The other is a distributed communications technology (CORBA). True, Microsoft has a distributed version of COM (DCOM), but it's nearly impossible to deploy unless you've got a rocket-science-equivalent degree in Windows security permissions. You say "MS saw a need, designed something to fill that need, tweaked it until it worked, then released it." Yes, they did. And DCOM stank to high heaven. Even Microsoft doesn't talk about it anymore.
CORBA, on the other hand, is heavily used in telecom, aerospace, financial, and high-performance, realtime scientific and control applications. Check out Doug Schmidt's TAO if you want to see what complete free, open-source CORBA can do. And stop bothering us with MS's abortive attempt at the same.
Y'all talk about CORBA as if it were really dead. Hello? Check out Doug Schmidt's The ACE Orb (TAO). Can you say high performance FOSS distributed computing platform, in use in some of the most demanding of applications and demanding environments in the world?
Yeah, it's got CORBA's steep learning curve, but once you're there, you can write distributed systems that perform much better than any web service platform will ever perform. It's FOSS, completely free for any use, unlike Michi Hennigs' ICE. I respect the hell out of Michi. I love ICE, but Zero-C's commercial usage fees are way too high for me to consider for any of my company's efforts. So I went back to TAO for my distributed computing needs and I'm as happy as can be.
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What planet have you been on? I'm actually an MS fan, but in this case, I have to say that you've missed the boat. CORBA and COM have little to do with one another. One is limited to a single machine (COM). The other is a distributed communications technology (CORBA). True, Microsoft has a distributed version of COM (DCOM), but it's nearly impossible to deploy unless you've got a rocket-science-equivalent degree in Windows security permissions. You say "MS saw a need, designed something to fill that need, tweaked it until it worked, then released it." Yes, they did. And DCOM stank to high heaven. Even Microsoft doesn't talk about it anymore.
CORBA, on the other hand, is heavily used in telecom, aerospace, financial, and high-performance, realtime scientific and control applications. Check out Doug Schmidt's TAO if you want to see what complete free, open-source CORBA can do. And stop bothering us with MS's abortive attempt at the same.
Y'all talk about CORBA as if it were really dead. Hello? Check out Doug Schmidt's The ACE Orb (TAO). Can you say high performance FOSS distributed computing platform, in use in some of the most demanding of applications and demanding environments in the world?
Yeah, it's got CORBA's steep learning curve, but once you're there, you can write distributed systems that perform much better than any web service platform will ever perform. It's FOSS, completely free for any use, unlike Michi Hennigs' ICE. I respect the hell out of Michi. I love ICE, but Zero-C's commercial usage fees are way too high for me to consider for any of my company's efforts. So I went back to TAO for my distributed computing needs and I'm as happy as can be.