Bill Eldridge wrote:
Shrinkwrapped software is a tiny minority these days of the total
software pool.
Back end business systems are much larger, and one of their prime tasks
is B2B and B2C operations
to automate sales and distribution, supply chains, information access,
customer tailoring, etc.
Interoperability is a very important component of that task. RPC,
CORBA, XML, Web Services/SOAP, Indigo
are all approaches that are supposed to make this interoperability
easier, but we seem
to always be stuck in unhappy land.
Here's an interesting new attempt: http://www.zeroc.com
Another interesting product:
http://dev.mainsoft.com/
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