[omniORB] CORBA costs in implimentation and OmniOrb

[Rajesh Khan]

Thanks for the great explanation , that definitely clarifies a lot. :)

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> CORBA is an open standard published by the OMG (see www.omg.org). For
> this standard there are multiple implementations available, some open
> source, some commercial. It is a project decision which implementation you
> select. OmniORB is open source, just like TAO, JacORB, R2CORBA, and various
> others (see http://www.orbzone.org for a list of ORBs). Than there are
> also commercial implementations, but their market share is decreasing
> rapidly. These commercial implementations can be expensive, I have seen
> prices of more than 3,000 euro per runtime CPU license.
>
> The open source ORBs can be used freely, but there are various companies
> that deliver commercial services as addition. Through these services the
> maturity of the open source ORBs can be increased.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Johnny Willemsen
> Remedy IT
> http://www.theaceorb.nl
>
>
> On 12/30/2011 11:42 PM, Rajesh Khan wrote:
>
>> Hi i recently read that CORBA commercial implimentation is very costly
>> and license per a single seat could be quiet heavy. I was hoping someone
>> could clarify what this means ? As far as i know OmniOrb is open source
>> and could be used freely. It is kind of a wrapper over the CORBA
>> architecture am i correct ?? Plus I thought that CORBA was free ??
>>
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