[rektide]

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.

[gmfawcett]

I wasn't a CORBA developer in those days, just an interested observer, so my opinion isn't worth much. Ultimately I think it suffered because of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...

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.