At 04:29 PM 2/12/95 -0800, Duane Percox wrote: >Earlier I asked if anyone knew about HP plans for making HP's object request >broker (called Orb Plus I believe) available for the 3k. I noticed a clear >lack of interest/response for this query and so it has raised some questions >in my mind which are: > >0. Do you even know what Distributed Objects are? Yup. > >1. Do you care about distributed object technology? Yup. > >2. If you care about distributed objects, are you eagerly anticipating CORBA >standard solutions or are you going the MS OLE and Network OLE route? Waiting on standard. And waiting. And waiting... > >3. Would you like to see the 3k support Distributed Object Technology? Since HP have no object-capable language on the 3000, thus no Local Objects, then what chance Distributed Objects? Maybe when there's a GNU CORB! :) And what about an object store? The price for HP Object database stuff was unreal and there may be some internal disputes on the product design. I don't know of any others object database vendors even announcing support for 3K. If the best level of abstraction is only a BLOB then it is going to be a long hard slog to get something practical working. ---- Jim "seMPEr" Wowchuk Vanguard Computer Services Internet: [log in to unmask] _--_|\ Compu$erve: 100036,106 / \ Post: PO Box 18, North Ryde, NSW 2113 \.--.__/ <---Sydney NSW Phone: +61 (2) 888-9688 v Australia Fax: +61 (2) 888-3056