From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA?
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Message-id: <3BAB4DF7.708203E1@mail.usask.ca>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
References: <64055d11.0109181242.7ffbaafd@posting.google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:25:59 -0600
Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef65b8ac-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

when i did a small undergraduate presentation on plan9 (i tried to do
distributed bioinformatics computations) one of my professors asked me the
same question: "why not corba?"..

unfortunately i couldn't answer him... i tried to find justification on
why i chose plan9 and the only thing i came up with was something in lines
of 'one who has seen and gotten used to the simplicity of p9 would sway
away from such monstrocities'...

i thought that's not a very good justification, so i simply added
'besides, the bell-labs people think corba sux'... :)

anyway, i didn't get the highest possible mark :)

andrey

Andrew Simmons wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm working on a distributed application using C++ and CORBA, and
> apart from the sheer mind-numbing complexity of both, I'm finding it
> an increasing strain just to lift the books I need to consult - over
> 1000 pages each. I was wondering if Plan 9 might be worth considering
> as a simpler alternative, and I would be interested in the views of
> the participants of this news group, especially those of anyone who
> has experience of both Plan 9 and CORBA. I'd also be interested in
> people's views on the suitability of Plan 9 as a platform for
> commercial development - my management might be rather nervous of
> using an operating system perceived as too far out of the mainstream.
>
> On a totally unrelated note, I'd be interested to find out why rob
> pike spells his name in lower case. Is this a literary device, like ee
> cummings, or does Plan 9 not support upper case?
>
> Thanks
> Andrew Simmons