But arguably the only real difference between CORBA and Web services is that, this time around, the superplatform vendors are in somewhat better agreement on where they’ll commoditize, compete, and interoperate.

Excellent point!

If only it mattered.

As difficult as it might be to understand, CORBA failed primarily for technical reasons (sorry, Steve 8-). Web services have done little to remedy those technical problems. Had they, we’d all be happily reusing the Web for machine-to-machine communication and integration, and building new specs that extend it, rather than new specs which treat it as any old bit pipe.

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