Software technologies of the World-Wide Web contain a promising potential for building a new generation of distributed, high performance computing environments. |
The web is not just a document access system supported by the somewhat limited HTTP protocol. Rather, it is the distributed object technology which can build general multi-tiered enterprise intranet and internet applications. |
CORBA is turning from a sleepy heavyweight standard initiative to a major competitive development activity that battles with DCOM and JavaBeans to be the core distributed object technology. |