Dublin-based Iona Techologies Ltd is touting round its Orbix complete implementation of the Object Management Group’s CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture, demonstrating its use by integrating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet with its customer ICL Plc’s Graphicspower package: ICL has been a beta test site for Orbix since January. Orbix is currently shipping for SunSoft’s Solaris, and Iona plans to ship a Windows/NT version by the summer. A version for Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP-UX is also imminent. In conjunction with Hewlett-Packard and SunSoft, Iona has submitted C++ binding interfaces to the Object Management Group. Iona was formed in March 1991 by Chris Tool, Annrai O’Toole and Sean Baker, all professors at Dublin’s Trinity College’s department of computer science.
