Ditching CORBA, again?

[Dan Kegel <dank alumni caltech edu>]

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10975.html says:
>Torben Weis, the chief architect for the KDE Object Model 
>(KOM) and OpenParts, announced the "new and improved"
>next generation OpenParts. The new approach to application or 
>component embedding, code named "Kanossa", uses
>shared libraries rather than CORBA.

And:
>Matthias Ettrich and Preston Brown also worked feverishly 
>through the weekend to develop a lightweight message based
>IPC/RPC mechanism for KDE -- one that can be used in addition 
>to the powerful KOM. The result was the Desktop
>Communication Protocol (DCOP), based on the X11R6 standard 
>library LibICE. ...
>Initial benchmarks seem to indicate that DCOP will be a hit. 
>Comparisons between DCOP and MICO show an improvement of 40 - 100% 
>for speed and over 50% for memory. One test of 10,000 synchronous 
>RPC calls between distributed objects took 4.5 seconds in DCOP 
>and over 8 seconds using MICO. 

It certainly sounds like KDE is abandoning CORBA, contrary to
what was posted here recently.
Somebody in the know at KDE please clarify.
- Dan

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(The above is my opinion alone, and not that of my employer)