Re: [HACKERS] More CORBA and PostgreSQL

Terry Mackintosh wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > political discussions* *grin*   Then again, isn't the point of ORBs that
> > you don't have to pick one...?
>
> One what?
> As yet no one has said that an ORB is/does or what the letters stand for,
> or what Corba is/does or what that stands for.

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

> It might be nice if some one mentioned in simple terms just what is all
> the about, and what does it do?

Basically it is a standard way for objects written in different languages to
communicate with each other.


Mark Bedish
mark@gwsi.com