Why does the more I hear about it the more .NET sound like CORBA

Isn't CORBA supposed to be some framework that lets applications talk to each other in a similar fasion as .NET. Seams to me that Microsoft is trying to take CORBA and XML smash it together and make another platform that is all Microsoft.

No, .NET is more than CORBA. D/COM is like CORBA, and that MS has for ages. .NET has CORBA like capabilities, but has much more than that. True multi - language interportability, to name one.

TRUE multi-language interportability???

Ohhhhhh man... don't make me laugh by describing bastardizing languages as 'true multi-language interportability.'

Where do they get you people from?

What is 'True' vs 'not true?' language interportability? What is 'interportability?' Geez, market speak being used as a technical argument.

In this context, it's being able to inherit, derive, and expand classes from any language, in any language.

That's not true and you know it. Only a few select languages can expand classes from other select langages. Essencially you write, in your language, an interface and use another interface as your base. That has been happening since the dawn of the code library. As long as it runs on a microsoft platform, and is new enough to create a COM/DCOM object, it will work with that implementation. It is just market speak, it is not innovation.

m$ is still trying to introduce a platform that is all m$. You 'forgot' to address that.

... from the micro$oft shill store.

Any langauge that has .NET implementation can do it.

True, but that isn't what .NET does.

Hm, let me see: COBOL is new enough? Perl? Python?

You can take a C# class, inherit it in COBOL, and invoke it in perl, and it will all *work*. Can you do that on any other framework?

And, just in case you didn't know, no, you can't inherit COM objects.*

[*] Well, you can, in a way, but it's not true, OO, inheritance. You encapsulate another object's method in yours, and does some stuff before you transfer them to the object. You can also expose the object's method directly, but then you lose the ability to affect it.

As I understand CORBA, it's more like COM, it's a way to package components, not code.