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The Rise and Fall of CORBA

The Rise and Fall of CORBA

By Tim Finin on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00 pm.

CORBA logo An article in ACM Queue magazine, The Rise and Fall of CORBA, analyzes what happened to the distributed computing technology that held so much promise in the 1990s. It’s written by Michi Henning who worked on CORBA between 1995 and 2002 as a member of the OMG’s architecture board and as an ORB implementer, consultant and trainer. His story touches on many lessons that apply today and will probably always apply to the process of developing new technologies and standards via consortia.

CORBA, an acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, was thought to be the practical, industry-backed solution to building distributed systems — systems that could share data models, information and services. We’re still chasing after that goal.

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