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    CORBA: Its Consortium, Competition, and Criticisms

    by
    Ellen Fischer

    References and Links

    Books

    Cargill, Carl F. Open Systems Standardization: A Business Approach. Prentice Hall: New Jersey, 1997, pp. 227-229.
    Libicki, Martin C. Information Technology Standards: Quest for the Common Byte. Digital Press: Boston, 1995, pp. 336-339.

    Magazines

    BYTE, March 1992
  • Osher, Herbert M. Software Without Walls, pp. 124-128
  • Stone, Christopher M. The Object Management Group, p. 125
    • Java Report, March 1998
  • Foody, Mike. Distributed Java Applications: Comparing RMI, CORBA, and Network Ease for Applets, pp. 23-32
  • Petschulat, Stephen. CORBA & Netscape: Ubiquitously Distributed Object Infrastructure, pp. 43-50,68.
  • Electronic version at www.javareport.com
    • Object Magazine, January 1998
  • DCOM Goes Cross Platform, p. 12
  • Chappell, David. On COM: ActiveX Controls vs. JavaBeans, pp. 20-22
  • Ewald, Alan and Roy, Mark. Distributed Objects: Microsoft Introduces COM+, pp. 17-18
  • Electronic version at www.sigs.com

    • Web Pages

    Internetworld, www.internetworld.com
  • Carr, David F. UPDATE: CORBA Community Responds to Sessions' Criticism, January 19, 1998
  • Zelnick, Nate. Microsoft to Develop for Unix, Support Attempts to Bridge CORBA, COM Standards, February 2, 1998
    • Java, www.javasoft.com
    Microsoft, www.microsoft.com
  • draft-brown-dcom-v1-spec-02.txt: Distributed Component Object Model Protocol -- DCOM/1.0, www.microsoft.com/oledev/olecom/draft-brown-dcom-v1-spec-02.txt
  • dcomtec.exe: DCOM Technical Overview, www.microsoft.com/ntserver/library/dcomtec.exe
  • Ionapr.htm: IONA Technologies to License Microsoft COM Technology, www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1998/Jan98/Ionapr.htm
    • OMG, www.omg.org
  • CORBAnet: www.omg.org/news/corbanet.htm
  • CORBA Overview: www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Research/Corba/OMG/arch2.htm#446864
  • CORBA Specification: www.omg.org/corba/corbaiiop.htm
  • wpjava.htm: Java, RMI and CORBA, www.omg.org/news/wpjava.htm
  • backgrnd.htm: OMG Background Information, www.omg.org/about/backgrnd.htm
  • omaov.htm: OMG Executive Overview, www.omg.org/about/omaov.htm
  • ovumpr.htm: Ovum Reports: CORBA Doesn't Work. OMG Retorts: Ovum Didn't Do Homework, www.omg.org/news/pr97/ovumpr.htm
  • CORBA Criticism by Ovum Dismissed as Technology Fiction, http://www.omg.org/www.omg.org/news/welsh.htm
    • PCWeek
  • Iona licenses COM technology from Microsoft, www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0126/26eiona.html

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    Ellen Fischer, March 30, 1998