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I worked with what was arguably the first large-scale CORBA product (IBM/Tivoli's TME10 product).

The main problem with COBRA was speed. At the time, authentication was brutally slow...and there was a separate problem with figuring out which object was canonical.

OTOH, being able to patch/override any function with any language was pretty handy. Of course, that because a configuration and operational nightmare, because custom configured overrides would get wiped out when upgrades happened. And it made it difficult for support to figure anything out, since many places were heavily customized by consultants.

It's an interesting idea that foundered on the technological limitations of the era, like OpenDoc, Telescript, etc.