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| HP’s committed to a CORBA on the 3000, but which one?
Questions at at the recent IPROF conference about HP’s progress with CORBA adoption on the HP 3000 got answered with a “stay tuned” reply from CSY Solution Team manager Jon Bale. HP’s 3000 Internet Program R&D manager Alvina Nishimoto reported at the HP Strategic Customer Forums in November that the decision to use Orbix was an obvious one, saying that the HP customers who needed HP 3000 CORBA were “to a T” asking her for Orbix. But a late February message from Bale over the HP newsgroup on the Internet was a lot less specific about committing to Orbix. Bale said, “The truth is that we are considering multiple options for CORBA technology on the HP 3000. We haven’t ruled anything out. Whatever decision we reach has to make technical and business sense. We're not there yet. Sorry for the confusion.” One 3000 customer who’s anxious for a CORBA-on-the-3000 solution — one that would save a 3000 application that will be migrated to another platform unless it appears — was told by HP it was waiting on licensing terms from Iona, the makers of Orbix. The most direct technical path to a CORBA solution appears to be porting Orbix, software that’s already running on HP-UX. We had no update from HP on its efforts to get a license from Iona. Jon van den Berg, a principal at
HP 3000 development tool supplier Premier Software Technologies, testified
to how complicated CSY’s choice must be. “We are currently
working with Iona’s Orbix CORBA product on HP-UX,” he said,
“I understand why HP is taking the time to evaluate options. As with
any CORBA-compliant solution, the Object Request Broker is the core docking
layer for applications — but the wealth of functionality for
architecting manageable distributed solutions comes with the implementation
of CORBA services. Name Services, Event Services, Trading Services,
Security Services, Concurrency, two-phase commit, and others are the real
measure of a complete CORBA product. It’s no easy task managing the
use of these services, so I imagine the CSY porting investigation has grown
in breadth, as the investigation into this has evolved.” Copyright The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved |
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