21-Jun-2006

The rise and fall of CORBA ( and what we can learn)

mig21 in Yet Another Programming Weblog posts a link to the article,The Rise and Fall of CORBA by Michi Henning. He extracts the following conclusions:

• Standards bodies must make solid rules to standardise best practices.

• No standard should be approved without a reference implementation.

• No standard should be approved before being used in some implementations of reasonable complexity.

• Free and open source software follows Darwinian selection so more readily satisfies the above rules.

• To create quality software, the ability to say, “No,” is more important than the ability to say, “Yes.”