[spaintech]

My first exposure to CORBA was 1996/97 where it was used to deploy a major distributed infrastructure. It worked quite well to manage and integrate this large scale deployment, some of it expanded beyond just one datacenter, so it was nice to have a really good control system to manage thousands of services across such a large estate with minimal user intervention. Applications were patch and upgraded through the CORBA services and we scaled the system to provide national and international infrastructure services. I would wager nearly 20 years since I had insight into how that infrastructure worked that this is still running… Obvious use case is telcos.