[pjmlp]

They surely were, for anyone doing enterprise during the 2000's.

We had no plans to change to something else.

[int_19h]

I recall a lot of talk about CORBA in early 00s, but I don't think I've actually ever seen it used anywhere outside of Gnome.

By late 00s, even the talk was more along the lines of it being legacy tech.

[pjmlp]

Several Nokia Networks products were based on CORBA, running on HP-UX, in a mix of C++ and Perl.

Eventually migrated to Java EE, also taking advantage of CORBA compatibility.

[SSLy]

Q3 is still in C++. Huawei also still supports CORBA.