It is "Simple" in contrast to things like CORBA and DCOM. Which it accomplishes by not solving the main problem that these distributed object protocols try to s

It is "Simple" in contrast to things like CORBA and DCOM. Which it accomplishes by not solving the main problem that these distributed object protocols try to solve at all and instead being overly complex RPC protocol with completely unnecessary "object orientation". On a similar note, the L in LDAP stands for lightweight, which was accomplished by removing advanced authentication features from X.500 DAP and then gradually reimplementing the same functionality with significantly more complex "simple" "framework" that in theory allows usage of any conceivable authentication mechanism, or something like that.