Paul Everitt wrote:

Though obviously subjective and impassioned, I agree with most of what the author says. The OMG has abandoned language-neutrality.

By coincidence I was just discussing with Christian Tismer why I had jumped off the CORBA bandwagon last year. The eccentricities of vendor implementations made it difficult to deploy applications in a timely fashion. My current opinion is these kind of applications are best suited for organizations blessed with an overstaffed pool of software developers. Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.