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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

• To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...>
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:21:04 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...>

> > Karl Waclawek wrote:
> > > What is it that prevented CORBA from gaining more ground in the market?
> 
> With CORBA, given an identifier, you need to know what it identifies
> *before* you use it, i.e. you need to know it's a stock quote to know to
> invoke getQuote().  With the Web, given an identifier, you find out what
> it as *after* you invoke GET on it.

Although this is not quite true - given that CORBA has DII - I think I understand
what you want to say: With GET you always get some (more or less) meaningful
result, and it is immediately accessible to human interpretation.
 
> The coordination costs with the latter are *dramatically* lower than
> with the former.  And between untrusted parties, cheap coordination is
> everything.
> 
> CORBA didn't succeed over the Internet because it wasn't designed to.

My original question was more about CORBA vs. web services/applications,
not the web in general, but you brought up a good point.

Karl

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