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- OMG continues to promote and develop CORBA, and the CORBA market continues to expand, particularly in real-time & EMBEDDED systems, and the large, mission-critical, fault tolerant systems essential to enterprise computing.
- Because CORBA is the only multi-platform, multi-language solution for systems integration, many enterprises will use CORBA to build and integrate applications DEFINED in the MDA.
- OMG and its MEMBER companies have always recognized the value of interoperating with other standards as WELL as proprietary platforms & languages. OMG created the COM/CORBA interoperability specification in 1995 (for connections to MICROSOFT's proprietary desktop systems) and expanded it in 1997, and designed and constructed the many ways that CORBA works with Java and XML.
- Among its other benefits, MDA continues this work of defining cross-middleware interoperability, and will provide tool support to speed and automate the process. This will be a great benefit to users who find them supporting multiple middleware platforms.
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