Many so-called distributed object systems don’t really do any kind of work that can be rightfully described as object-oriented in nature, nor do they exist in distributed, heterogeneous environments, according to insiders familiar with most of the current object technologies and strategies. Most of the frameworks, brokers, models and mechanisms either don’t work or are not what they’re cracked up to be – even stuff like Microsoft Corp Object Linking & Embedding and the WordPerfect Corp-Apple Computer Inc OpenDOC are little more than services for accessing and administering compound documents, not for doing distributed object processing in any meaningful sense.