[mercury-users] Mercury in the Mainstream: CORBA vs COM/DCOM

[Ralph Becket]

Peter J. Natali wrote on 11 Sep:
> Tyson Dowd wrote:
> > 
> > As a side note, we are working on (what we believe) is a good way
> > for Mercury to gain some mainstream usage -- a CORBA binding for
> > Mercury.  This would allow using Mercury to write components,
> > and so be adopted piecemeal, in an experimental fashion, rather
> > than demanding the whole job be done in Mercury (such as the
> > "but can you write an OS" approach).

Smashing idea.

>   What about support for COM/DCOM first? There's a huge market there. 
> 
>   How about a quick poll of the Mercury user base on the question of
> CORBA vs. COM/DCOM support?

Just voted!

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