Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8

From: Cary O'Brien <cobrien_at_Radix.Net>
Date: 13 May 1999 09:55:09 -0400
Message-ID: <7heljt$phe$1_at_saltmine.radix.net>


In article <car_2.5725$qQ4.122906_at_news2.giganews.com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_hex.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 May 1999 13:52:10 -0500, nik <ndsimpso_at_ingr.com> wrote:
>>r.e.ballard_at_usa.net wrote in message <7hatok$79i$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...

[snip discussion]
>
>The deployment of CORBA-based applications on Linux is, at present, in
>roughly the embryonic form that GNOME was nearly a year ago. Some
>pieces are available, but a minimal quantity of applications that have
>reached a level of maturity as to allow them to be pre-configured
>using a package manager.
>
>As far as I can tell, the only CORBA-based application that
>'self-installs' is the ORBit support in GNOME, and at present that
>seems only to be used to support the panel "applets." Again, that
>shouldn't be considered an "attack" on either GNOME or ORBit; step one
>in "world domination" is to get some small things working, and then
>for maturity of codebase to later allow more ambitious results.
>

Applixware *seems* to both access and export CORBA objects. I haven't been able to get it to work.

  • cary

[snip more of the argument] Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 15:55:09 CEST

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