The World Wide Web Consortium and its little friend, the Object Management Group, met together for a two-day workshop this month to discuss the ins and outs of distributed and mobile code. The Object Group would like nothing more than for Universal Resource Locator, HyperText Transfer Protocol and Common Gateway Interface to become Corba-compliant, a 70% probability. In fact, it wouldn’t mind it a bit if it were to absorb the Consortium, currently looking for a chief executive. All the major Web players were at the meeting except for Netscape Communications Corp, which is being stand-offish because it has its own fish to fry with LiveConnect. Microsoft Corp was there, as was Sun Microsystems Inc, which was sitting on the fence not knowing which way to go since Java has its own Remote Method Invocation.
