[omniORB] CORBA costs in implimentation and OmniOrb

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

CORBA is an open standard published by the OMG (see www.omg.org). For 
this standard there are multiple implementations available, some open 
source, some commercial. It is a project decision which implementation 
you select. OmniORB is open source, just like TAO, JacORB, R2CORBA, and 
various others (see http://www.orbzone.org for a list of ORBs). Than 
there are also commercial implementations, but their market share is 
decreasing rapidly. These commercial implementations can be expensive, I 
have seen prices of more than 3,000 euro per runtime CPU license.

The open source ORBs can be used freely, but there are various companies 
that deliver commercial services as addition. Through these services the 
maturity of the open source ORBs can be increased.

Best regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
http://www.theaceorb.nl

On 12/30/2011 11:42 PM, Rajesh Khan wrote:
> Hi i recently read that CORBA commercial implimentation is very costly
> and license per a single seat could be quiet heavy. I was hoping someone
> could clarify what this means ? As far as i know OmniOrb is open source
> and could be used freely. It is kind of a wrapper over the CORBA
> architecture am i correct ?? Plus I thought that CORBA was free ??
>
>
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