Nice walk down memory lane. We used Orbix in 1995 to build a production banking platform, one of the first true web-enabled banking services, and it was a night

Nice walk down memory lane. We used Orbix in 1995 to build a production banking platform, one of the first true web-enabled banking services, and it was a nightmare. It wasn't necessarily the complexity. Our engineers could understand proxies, stubs, and bindings well enough, and when it all worked it worked well. But memory leaks on NT and mysterious performance issues sucked all the life out of the project. Over the next few years I watched CORBA wither away in the face of growing adoption of simpler web-oriented protocols, and it never made me even a little sad to see :).