CORBA for Not Yet Techies 3

"Computer Careers: High Tech Jobs To Make the Internet Your Own Personal Network"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Not everybody is this happy with CORBA

According to the London-based research company Ovum Ltd., Common Object Request Broker Architecture, CORBA, is "No match for Microsoft's DCOM." CORBA is a "doomed" technology. It has no hope of matching Microsoft's DCOM.

The report is "Ovum Evaluates: Object Request Brokers." According to it, "The problem with the ORBs is that you have to invoke every single service yourself, using a lot of commands. Some ORBs have 700 commands -- it makes development very difficult when you have 700 commands to learn."

"There is another fundamental problem," the report said. "None of their ORBs work together."

"The standard (CORBA) has no future."

Tough words. Who’s right? Who knows? Not me.

I do not have any doubt that SOMETHING is going to work to link more computers together.

What does it mean to you as an aspiring info tech programmer or other professional?

At first, probably not much. I can’t see programming/development as an entry-level job. All my sources agree that it’s not easy to learn.

If you are satisfied to remain a low-level techie peon in your computer career, you may never care about it, or need learn only as much as you have to when you’re forced to.

If you aspire to greater wealth, responsibility and status, however, you need to take a big-picture view of your employer, business and the Internet. Management tends to promote people who have an overall understanding of the organization and its needs. Also, if you eventually become an independent consultant you will be able to charge more money for all the skills you know. And in the future even more than now, simply understanding how all these individual technologies fit together as networks and the Internet is a major skill set in itself.

Whether Common Object Request Broker Architecture or DCOM win the "interoperable distributed object" war, knowing the place of both will put you a cut above ordinary techies who know only a narrow skill.

If you’re aiming at programming as your computer career, first learn your chosen language. Then take a step beyond the ordinary classes and books and find out how that language works with these advanced technologies such as both CORBA and DCOM on the Internet and other such networks.

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