What is CORBA?
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an Object Bus based distributed computing environment
CORBA standards are developed since by OMG (Object Management Group) of some 500 companies (including IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, Netscape)
Cross-language support is provided by architecture-neutral IDL (Interface Description Language)
Cross-platform support is provided by IDL->Native Language pre-compilers that generate platform-specific ORB servers, exporting IDL interfaces