Wrapping up OLE

December 1996 / Reviews / An Open Window for OpenDoc / Wrapping up OLE

For all the OLE-versus-OpenDoc battling, in the end the two might coexist peacefully. IBM's latest OpenD oc release can embed OLE components and vice versa.
OpenDoc becomes even more attractive in a networked environment. Most industry players except Microsoft support the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) as an open standard for cross-platform component interaction. OpenDoc is based on IBM's CORBA implementation, called System Object Model (SOM), which ensures that OpenDoc parts will interact with other CORBA-compliant components across a network. Microsoft is relying on Network OLE and expects other vendors to fall in line. We'll see.

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My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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