The Object Management Group looks set to find itself beset by controversy: it seems that Microsoft Corp is about to make a joint submission with DEC for the Object Request Broker – joint submissions are allowed but have to involve a company with a submission already in the ring; this marriage of convenience has looked a possibility for a while, since the engineer at work on developing the New Technology kernel for Microsoft is none other than Dave Cutler – chief architect of a certain VMS operating system; strange bed-fellows Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc have already teamed up on a submission.
