Repeating my general request, someone please do a Speaking for the Dead on COBRA that includes the good, the hopeful, the smart.
Also the bad too. These days it's just a sign a symbol for bad, but in this hyperreality we dont know the referrant, dont know the lessons of the bad either.
But i want to hear the good most of all. And how good was avoided, missed, unfulfilled. Because it I think like so much else might possibly have gone great, if things & times & adoption had been only slightly barely different. It was just too soon for open source, is a huge possibility in my mind.
Also comparison versus DCOM/OLE would be informative, for historical context.
The design of CORBA was based on critical assumptions that simply weren't true, leaving the application developer to deal with all the essential complexity.
Also the bad too. These days it's just a sign a symbol for bad, but in this hyperreality we dont know the referrant, dont know the lessons of the bad either.
But i want to hear the good most of all. And how good was avoided, missed, unfulfilled. Because it I think like so much else might possibly have gone great, if things & times & adoption had been only slightly barely different. It was just too soon for open source, is a huge possibility in my mind.
Also comparison versus DCOM/OLE would be informative, for historical context.