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On Feb 14, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Len Bullard wrote: >> We’ve had the same ‘… is dead’ predictions for lots of languages >> and technologies. We’ve been having the same debates on the VRML/ >> X3D lists since those statements from the gamers that ‘no one >> serious does anything with….” some months ago. Fortran is still >> out there, Cobol is still out there and any time someone says >> ‘yes, but who cares’, check out which language is running a lot of >> missile control systems and which one is still running a lot of >> banks. Densities change but not the fact of for a sizable x there >> is some evidence of n. > > Dead or dying. CORBA is dead. [...] On the other hand tech like > CORBA and OSI that never achieved orbit or even left the launch pad > in the first place are thoroughly dead. They don't even have much > of a legacy to support. I'll be the first to agree that CORBA is dying, and deserves it. But to say it never took off is just not true: I know from first-hand experience that there are lots and lots of big mission-critical apps, e.g. in the telecommunications and banking industries, that were built on CORBA. Stefan -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
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