Copacetic

I’ve dealt some digs out to the Cape in the past, but this report from Silicon Republic seems to indicate some serious sales growth.

According to the latest Gartner Dataquest report on application integration and middleware (AIM), Cape Clear holds 18.9pc of the north American ESB market and has experienced revenue growth numbers of 86.7pc. Worldwide, Cape Clear captured 15.9pc of the market.

Congratulations, guys, well done!

Michi Henning writes about The Rise and Fall of CORBA on the ACM Queue website. In the article he describes the history and development of the CORBA standard and details why it has been relegated to a infrastructure backwater. They key reason for CORBA’s failure that resonates with me is the following statement,

The OMG does not require a reference implementation for a specification to be adopted. This practice opens the door to castle-in-the-air specifications. On several occasions the OMG has published standards that turned out to be partly or wholly unimplementable because of serious technical flaws. In other cases, specifications that could be implemented were pragmatically unusable because they imposed unacceptable runtime overhead. Naturally, repeated incidents of this sort are embarassing and do little to boost customer confidence. A requirement for a reference implementation would have forced submitters to implement their proposals and would have avoided many such incidents.