RE: [HACKERS] CORBA STATUS

Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz>

From: Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Date: 1999-11-09T15:19:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Anyway, I know that at least one ORB, TAO, runs on many more types of
> platforms than Postgres does (e.g. VxWorks, Lynx, Solaris, NT, ...),
> though Postgres runs on more Unix-style platforms. But that particular
> ORB is not a good candidate for us, for reasons I already mentioned
> (C++, large build size, poor configure support).

Only a small note (I don't know details): there is an implementation of
CORBA for the Gnome desktop called ORBit (small, in C, fast), please see
http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/

			Dan