Background & History
Object Management Group's (OMG) answer to the need for interoperability among the rapidly proliferating number of hardware and software products available today
CORBA Specification Version 1.1 in 1991
- failed to provide out-of-box multi-vendor interoperability among ORB implementations
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CORBA 2.0 in December 1994
- defines true interoperability by specifying how ORBs from different vendors can interoperate.