[antiRepublicrat]

I stand by my claim that Microsoft leads the field in cross-platform interoperability.

Again, how old is CORBA? And guess what, it's not proprietary.

Now Microsoft isn't all evil in everything. I love being able to write an XML filter so I can just push XML back and forth between SQL Server and other data sources. But Microsoft's commitment to open data and application interchange is only partial. Their greed always takes precedence.

[StJacques]

As to how old CORBA is, I'm not certain but I think it goes back to the 1990 or 1991.

But surely you're not claiming that CORBA's cross-platform interoperability capabilities compares with .NET's? You can claim that it came first however.