"The OMG consortium was held together by one common
purpose: to stop Microsoft. The OMG failed in this
effort, and is now limping along with only a few
companies making even a minimal profit on CORBA
technologies."
"Although Microsoft will always support other component
development languages, I believe Java is Microsoft's language
of choice for implementing the software that will run on the
component tier."
The article is very "pro" Microsoft, but you can read it anyway at:
http://www.objectwatch.com/issue7.htm
;-)
Peyman