Comment Re:I hate to not bash MS on /. but... (Score 4, Informative) 304
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.
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.
