Received: from smtp.stellison.co.uk ([212.56.66.225]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAFI8Vs20362 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:08:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from francis@stellison.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1057 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2000 18:07:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neo) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 15 Nov 2000 18:07:07 -0000 From: "Francis Solomon" To: "Joachim Achtzehnter" , "Adam Lang" Cc: "pgsql-interfaces" Subject: RE: OT: Heterogenous networks Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:07:32 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-Archive-Number: 200011/167 X-Sequence-Number: 203 > Today, in a message to pgsql-interfaces Adam Lang wrote: > > > > Man... everything has to be so hard to make a decision > on... Sometimes > > I wish someone was here before me that made these tech decisions... > > Stephen Crawley had written: > > > > > > CORBA is both standardised and platform independent. > > While I tend to agree with Stephen, and I had mentioned CORBA in an > earlier message too, Adam may be in a bit of a bind because > he has settled > on using VB. I'm not aware of a CORBA mapping for that, is there one? > > By choosing VB one more or less commits to a Microsoft only solution, > arghh. I believe that you could try Orbix - have a look at http://www.iona.com/products/orb_orbc++_home.htm for more details. To quote briefly from the web page: "Use familiar tools such as Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, MS Office or Active Server Pages to write COM applications that can easily access CORBA applications." Please note that I have not used Orbix, and I believe it will cost a fairly large chunk of cash to license. Anyone actually have experience with this thing? Francis