Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

[Marko Schuetz]

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Erik> Hi Tim,
>> The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it
>> "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a
>> genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked.
>> 
>> IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off from the open software
>> world (including about 7 million Linux users), and from those
>> who dislike/fear Microsoft or just want a non-proprietary standard.


Erik> We have been blinded by the MS propaganda I guess, but now I agree with you
Erik> completely that we are missing a big market by doing only COM so a CORBA
Erik> binding is now high on my priority list. As Sigbjorn said in his reply, it
Erik> is hard to decide which ORB to use, and I did not know about omniORB.

FYI, there is also MICO:

http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/

and a whole bunch at

http://adams.patriot.net/%7etvalesky/freecorba.html

Marko