Absolutely not. First, OMG plans to continue SUPPORT for CORBA at current levels at least; demand from CORBA USERS in realtime, embedded, fault-tolerant, and enterprise systems will actually increase the tempo of CORBA standardization.

CORBA will also be one of the most prominent platform-specific MODELS in the MDA. MDA will make it practical to EITHER keep all of your CORBA applications and bridge to other platforms, or port to them, basing this decision on business factors instead of technological pressure.

Absolutely not. First, OMG plans to continue support for CORBA at current levels at least; demand from CORBA users in realtime, embedded, fault-tolerant, and enterprise systems will actually increase the tempo of CORBA standardization.

CORBA will also be one of the most prominent platform-specific models in the MDA. MDA will make it practical to either keep all of your CORBA applications and bridge to other platforms, or port to them, basing this decision on business factors instead of technological pressure.