At Sun, 5 May 1996 20:29:28 -0700, Duane Percox wrote,
>I just finished wading through all sorts of IBM press info
>and an interesting article on interoperability using object
>technology (as in Corba). Unfortunately, missing in all this
>hoopla has been HP. While IBM is adding Corba support to *all*
>of their operating environments (including the as/400), HP still
>only plays distributed objects on HP-UX.
 
Interestingly, IBM's D/SOM (distributed objects) was in part the result of a
collabaritive effort with HP's own object technology (whose name escapes me
no doubt until I press the <SEND> key :).  Anyway, HP already had an
object-oriented IDL compiler and other parts, while IBM had a object library
facility and the draft form CORBA 2 was just being formulated, when HP & IBM
announced their collaboration.  Couple of years ago now.
 
So much for history.  If HP aren't going to provide run-time RPC support
within HP3000s as FOS, then I see little hope of Distributed Objects making
it.  Too much research required, not enough lab budget or initiative
(especially after loosing Mike B and others).
 
sIGH!
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