The big competition for Corba then was the Open Software Foundation (OSF), with its Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) standard. Meanwhile, Microsoft was not really in the DOC game at all, other ...

The CORBA standard for distributed object computing continues to find new adherents, both in the vendor and user communities. More than a few industry observers have asked, however, if CORBA should ...

We like to do a lot with a little. That’s the attraction of scripting: it manages big, complicated computing systems — CORBA, for example — with simple, low-cost means. We affectionately call CORBA ...

Signal processing systems often include multiple types of processors,such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), General Purpose Processors(GPPs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). These ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...