From: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) Subject: Re: TECH: My standard is better than your standard! Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1992 02:59:02 GMT Message-ID: Organization: University of Waterloo In article <1992Jul7.191936.12207@advtech.uswest.com> wbc@lookout.uswest.com (Brad Cleavenger) writes: >Have you heard of the Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and >Specification ( CORBA )? It was developed by the Object Management Group (OMG) >which consists of DEC, HP, SunSoft, NCR and about 250 other members. This is the first I've heard of it! That's what I get for falling behind on my computer mags. >It basically provides the spec's for an Object Request Broker (ORB) which is >a mechanism that allows independent objects to talk to each other without >knowing where each other live. These objects can reside on different machines >and can be created with different programming languages. Sounds like exactly what we need. Where can we get some more information about it? -- Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca BangPath: uunet!watmath!sunee!broehl Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]