now as in university back in 2006 (whew, that long ago, skriptkiddies) i had a professor who at that time had seen about 150 summers, and who was for example teaching PHIGS (you know, the successor of GKS). he also some time mumbled something about CORBA... i don't exactly work in IT right now, so i had to look it up on (stone me, stone me) wikipedia:
The Common Object Requesting Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG)
i like the sound of OMG...WTF
...anybody ever had a boss who though it a wise idea to have a Web Task Force?