The Software Bus: CORBA HYPE
Has many services, only a few of which overlap Channel Access
Supported by EBM (Everybody But Microsoft)
With V 2.0 there is (theoretically) inter-ORB operability
Freeware plus vendor versions so EPICS users can choose
Newer versions have a “reasonable” efficiency of a few msec. to invoke an object on the net and get a result
Make a zillion line modeling program look like an object
Self-describing everything
Language and machine independence
Scalable Server Infrastructure