Oracle Corp says it will most certainly be going along to Microsoft Corp’s October 1 ActiveX fest in New York (CI No 3,000). VP server marketing Mark Jarvis is expected to hold the ticket. Oracle just recently endorsed IIOP, the Object Management Group’s Corba-compliant Internet InterORB Protocol, an ORB-to-ORB tom tom that Netscape Communications Corp threw its weight behind and which lead to Microsoft’s offer to put ActiveX into an open consortium in the first place. IIOP will go into Oracle’s Web Server 3.0 which is supposed to ship by the end of the year. The company plans to detail its wider ambition for Corba in a couple of weeks. The thinking is it may end up endorsing Microsoft on the desktop and have Corba do its server work.
