• To: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:25:49 -0400
• Cc: Karl Waclawek <karl@w...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DB332C9.1020404@y...>; from j3322ptm@y... on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:48:41AM +0200
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> Karl Waclawek wrote:
> > What is it that prevented CORBA from gaining more ground in the market?

With CORBA, given an identifier, you need to know what it identifies
*before* you use it, i.e. you need to know it's a stock quote to know to
invoke getQuote().  With the Web, given an identifier, you find out what
it as *after* you invoke GET on it.

The coordination costs with the latter are *dramatically* lower than
with the former.  And between untrusted parties, cheap coordination is
everything.

CORBA didn't succeed over the Internet because it wasn't designed to.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile.  Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.
http://www.markbaker.ca             http://www.idokorro.com

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