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In article <1992Oct8.013106.21116@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, anderson@bigun.enet.dec.com (Keith J. Anderson) writes:
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>         o Applications run on desktop

This would tend to rule out X Windows, wouldn't it?

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>     o Distributed Function
>          Examples:
>            DEC ACA Services, DECmessageQ, OSF DCE
> 	 Biggest growth area for future : application talking to application.

Is anybody working on a scheme for breaking down the seams between applications?
That is, not only can they share data, but they can share it in a transparent
fashion by directly invoking each other's services when appropriate, without
the user having to remember which application to use to perform which function.
Apple's AppleEvent Object Model seems to me to be one step on this road, which
has already garnered a significant degree of vendor support. The only other
idea I can think of that sounds remotely similar is Sun's ToolTalk (assuming
I haven't got a completely wrong idea of what ToolTalk is all about).

Or is this what the Object Request Broker idea is all about?

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