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To: david thor who wrote (7725)	11/25/1997 2:00:00 PM
From: James Yegerlehner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

>> I doubt that they'll get the technology for free! << What good will that do Borland?

To: david thor who wrote (7725)	11/26/1997 3:35:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

Granted, the competition is not going to get CORBA technolgy for free but the issue is not whether they must own all of the technology which goes into their products. The goal of CORBA is to leverage legacy resources and provide interoperability between languages on all commercially viable platforms. It achieves that without forcing Smalltalk, Java or C++ developers to use a needlessly complicated, unsecure and brittle technology developed almost exclusively to support Visual Basic, to wit, COM. What should be happening here is simple: Microsoft should recognize the superior technology of CORBA and make beneficial additions and/or enhancements to allow CORBA to run well on Windows. They aren't doing that because they don't want to open the market to applications or Windows-independent software of any kind. Upshot: somebody else is going to have to provide CORBA facilities on Windows and there's a good chance that somebody will be IBM. That's going extinguish the already retarded luster of BORL management.