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

[Luke Evans]

I vote for CORBA too, for much the same reasons.  Whilst you'll get many
different stories comparing CORBA and DCOM, we've found CORBA to do exactly
what it sets out to do (though, unless you write your own, you have to
'adopt' an ORB from the available bunch, some of which are CORBA subsets).  

Our software (Business Intelligence) supports more platforms than you can
shake a stick at (>12 UNIX variants, NT Intel, NT Alpha and VAX VMS), and
CORBA does it's thing very successfully between them.  My experience of
(D)COM is nothing like as positive, quite apart from the obvious lack of
currently supported platforms.

Having said that, you can't ignore DCOM commercially, we don't, and we put
it to good use in certain components that work solely on Windows. 

Luke Evans
OLAP Special Projects Architect
Seagate Software, Information Management Group

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ingenuit [SMTP:at at ingenuity-sw.com]
> Sent:	Monday, September 14, 1998 6:48 PM
> To:	mercury-users at cs.mu.OZ.AU
> Subject:	Re: [mercury-users] Mercury in the Mainstream: CORBA vs
> COM/DCOM
> 
> CORBA, yes, yes, yes.  
> 
> Its fully cross-platform, stabile, open, 
> reasonably efficient and you get 
> COM/DCOM accessibility in the bargain.
> 
> (Hearing that the Mercury team is working on CORBA 
> support makes my day!.)
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> Ann Tecklenburg
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