iirc zeroc established by people who used to do corba and then decided that they can do it better. i tried to use it in one of products i worked on a while ago

iirc zeroc established by people who used to do corba and then decided that they can do it better. i tried to use it in one of products i worked on a while ago, but licensing was cost prohibitive: $200k ( $500k ?) or few percent from sales