[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.

[antiRepublicrat]

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.

CORBA is an architecture with APIs and protocols, built so that applications in any language on any system can interoperate as if they were homogenous. And it was all done at a time when Microsoft was trying to lock people in to only using Microsoft products, not playing well with others at all. .NET is simply a copy of Java, although its creator has only released a CLR for its own operating systems.