From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 12:57:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07616 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07596 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA24997 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00282; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:39:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702202039.NAA00282@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Windows95: what you don't know, you must reinvent To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:39:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970220110052.0096a860@visigenic.com> from "Tim Oneil" at Feb 20, 97 11:00:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I'm willing to write the COM model support code for FreeBSD. I might > >even be willing to write a Registry (or LDAP directory) for class > >identification, agregation, and configuration. > > You can write it Terry, but does that mean we have to use it?? Kidding > aside though, have you taken a look at corba? I mean, is it the microsft > way or noway already?? > If so, its just another fine standard mowed over by the ms jaggernaut. Name two vendors writing CORBA components which will work on platforms based on their processor type rather than based on their ABI. CORBA is, unfortunately, a UNIX standard, in the classic sense of the definition: a method of drawing a distinction between a particular UNIX vendor and their competitors. The purpose of such standards is to segregate the marketplace. COM, on the other hand, is being built for all major commercial x86 platforms. For example, Solaris x86 (download the demo from http://www.sagus.com/prod-i~1/net-comp/dcom/dcomdown.htm). If Dale Rogerson, author of "Inside COM", published by Microsoft Press, is to be believed, one of these platforms is Linux. But not FreeBSD. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.