RE: corba 3.0 problem?

["Roger Vaughn" <rvaughn pobox com>]

Interesting.  This bears watching, only because of the apparent comments
made by the OMG.  Bear in mind that you can't take Sessions at face value -
he is extremely pro-Microsoft, though he claims otherwise.  Look at his
statements about Visual Basic, eg. "it is extremely easy to build highly
scalable middle tier components in Visual Basic."  The very comment is
laughable.  Oh, BTW, Sessions, just because a language is growing quickly or
used by many doesn't make it better than any other (or even good in its own
right).  Where is PowerBuilder these days?

It's not surprising that Sun could put this much pressure on the OMG,
however.  After all, Sun more or less invented CORBA 1.0.  However, it *is*
disturbing that Sun continues to alienate more and more developers by
pushing "Java-only".  I'd like to see Sun try to rewrite Solaris in Java....

Java is *not* the way.  It lacks features necessary for large-scale
development acceleration.  (as in, c'mon, you have to write the entire "if"
statement for debugging code every time - and can't compile it out?)  And
moreover, it's a performance morass.  Until someone develops a VM that
performs at near-native code speeds and in a small memory space, it's not
going to cut it.  ....Ok, step off of THAT soapbox....

As one of the first commercial CORBA developers, I would be sorry to see it
die.  It has its problems, but what technology doesn't.  It is a usable
standard, which is hard enough to achieve by itself.  Here's my prediction.
Assuming that the OMG continues to follow this track, it is going to lose
respect and following in the industry.  Most current CORBA publishers will
not follow - they can't afford to lose their legions of C++ customers.
Instead, they will continue to develop CORBA their own ways - until we are
left with the same ORB market fragmentation we had before CORBA was
standardized.  (Anyone remember those days?  I sure do.)  Perhaps after a
period of fragmentation, the various vendors will get together and form a
replacement for the OMG, finally taking CORBA back where it was meant to be.

At least that's what I hope for.


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 1999 12:08 PM
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> http://www.objectwatch.com/issue19.htm
> check it out.... Is there a problem here?
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