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To: Don Hurst who wrote (3841)	9/16/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

After reviewing its future here, IBM speaks for itself " IBM next week will show how aggressive it can be in the Ethernet, ATM, and voice markets with a series of networking products designed to shed its systems network architecture (SNA) bias. The company plans to introduce Ethernet switches, enhancements to its ATM backbone switch, voice and data integration support in its router line, and a device to establish a single point for network access. Most of the products are being developed internally by IBM, a dramatic switch from its days of original equipment manufacturing or reselling technology. " techweb.com Just when we posters get it all figured out, and predict it to the world, IBM does this . Some nerve , need to Windex the crystal ball . Wonder if its the official end to Novell-IBM's blue (light) box specials . FWIW, on a PC company acquisition , LVG (3/98) said no hardware company would be bought by IBM . Parsing anyone ? Regards, Jim K.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3841)	9/16/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8218

CORBA stands for "Common Object Request Broker Architecture" and is used as an standard architecture to allow Distributed Computing Applications communicate effectively via an Object Oriented concept. MSFT - following its well rehersed practice of attempting to mutating or stop any non-propriatary consepts/technologies/products that they cannot control - has developed their own alternative to CORBA. This is called COM and DCOM. Of course DCOM fits very well into the WinTel technologies. Beyond that, I am not willing to venture. I know what it is, what its for, and the basics of how it works, and why its so important. Someone with more indepth involvement could add or modify this. But the important thing to note is that IBM recently has begun moving much of their networked application code onto the MSFT NT server platform which will not want to follow any CORBA or pure Java compliancy. A mistake in my mind for IBM. Toy