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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:35:58 +0000
From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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To: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS
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> It probably makes sense to try to get things working with one ORB, and
> then see if it's worth generalising.  I'd guess ORBit is a good one to
> start with since it's C-based, and it's pretty small: if I have to
> install an extra package on my machine just to run PostgreSQL, I'm not
> going to mind ORBit, whereas TAO might annoy me (IIRC, TAO is quite
> big; I may be thinking of another ORB, though).  ORBit does IIOP, I
> believe, so that covers GNOME and KDE people.

Yeah, TAO might annoy you; it takes 1.3GB of disk space to build,
though much less once built ;)

                     - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California