Delphi Developers Group Main Meeting

March 15, 1999
A CORBA Primer
and
Distributed Computing
Andrew Watson
Vice President of Technology and Chair of the Architecture Board
Object Management Group
CORBA middleware is ubiquitous. It supports Web sites for Wells Fargo bank, American Airlines and CNN, schedules cargo flights at FedEx, runs Iridium satellites, AWACS airborne early warning aircraft, does stock control at Home Depot and The Gap, helps build airliners at Boeing and jet engines at Pratt and Whitney. It's in every copy of Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Sun's JDK 1.2,and is soon to be part of Lotus Domino and Novell Netware. This talk describes Object Managemrnt Group (the orgnization that created CORBA) and the Object Management Architecture (the architecture of which CORBA is a part), as well as some CORBA fundamentals and a case study.

Biography
Andrew Watson is the OMG's Vice President of Technology and Chair of the Architecture Board, the group of distinguished technical contributors from OMG member organisations that oversees the technical consistency of all OMG's specifications. From 1992 to 1996 he also chaired the OMG's Object Request Broker Task Force, which was responsible for the development and deployment of the CORBA 2 specification. Previously Andrew spent six years with the ANSA core team in Cambridge researching distributed object architectures, specialising in distributed object type systems.

Time	7:00 PM
Location	Kronos, Inc. 400 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA
Directions	Heading South on Route 128 take Waltham Exit 27A, Totton Pond Road. Proceed up the exit ramp and cross over the Route 128 overpass. At the second traffic light (the first and second traffic light are separarted by about 50 feet) turn right onto Third Avenue. Heading North on Route 128 take Waltham Exit 27A, Totton Pond Road. Proceed up the exit ramp and just before the traffic light, bear right towards the stop sign. Turn right onto Third Avenue. On Third Avenue, proceed about a 100 yards and turn left onto Fifth Avenue, the first "real" left just before the Westin Hotel. Proceed up the hill on Fifth Avenue, at the top turn (bear) right. You will pass 4 buildings (3 red brick and 1 tan brick) on your left. Kronos is located in the last (4th) building on you left, the only tan brick building in the office park. Park in the parking lot and proceed to the main entrance of the tan brick building. Signs in the lobby will direct you to the meeting room. (If you get lost, ask for directions to the Westin Hotel in Waltham.)
Additional Information	Al Reinhart, DisCom Systems Voice: 508/869-6417 EMail: reinhart@DisCom.com
In case of inclement weather or a holiday on the day of a scheduled meeting please call Kronos after 3:00 PM at (781) 890-3232 to determine if the building will be open and check the web site to deterine if the meeting is canceled. (An open building does not guarantee a meeting will take place.)