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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16663)	1/23/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg - NSCP supports OLE, but CORBA is preferred starting with Communicator : With the release of its Communicator client and SuiteSpot server product lines, Netscape Communications is adopting the important Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and extending it across the Internet. Since it was first proposed by the 700-member Object Management Group earlier this decade, CORBA has been adopted by an increasingly large group of companies to provide their users a completely cross-platform method of providing interoperability of software objects distributed across the network. This article explains why CORBA is important, how and why Netscape is enabling CORBA for the Internet and intranets, and how you and your users can benefit from Netscape's CORBA strategy. Searching the developers section in NSCP for CORBA finds 100+ documents. Searching for OLE finds 29. Your dislike for OLE lends credence to my ascertation that Navis an inferior browser. It uses OLE 2.0, No, it implements OLE. NSCP makes much more use of CORBA than OLE, all across the board, from servers to clients, on all supported architectures. (download a large spreadsheet with a lot of code in each application and see what happens). o I don't typically use spreadsheets. o I don't have a machine that runs IE, although MSFT promised a working version quite some time ago. o I would never download something that had executable code in it and just run it, unless I was very sure of the security model of the application. Nav's implementation of OLE also limits its functionality in regards to interoperability with other productivity applications But their use of CORBA ensures their interoperability with a wider variety of applications both local and across the network, and across a wider variety of platforms. I understand your reluctance to ever admit you are/were wrong, and I also know that neither one of us will ever convince the other. Why don't I just acknowledge that you are an expert in everything you've ever read about in Windows world, and we'll agree to disagree on yet another point. -justinb