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3. Why should I develop applications with distributed objects?
For lots of reasons:
- Distributed objects might be used to share information across
applications or users.
- Distributed objects might be used synchronize activity across
several machines.
- Distributed objects might be used to increase performance associated
with a particular task.
- Distributed objects might be used to connect applications running on
PCs with information managed by
UNIX processes or mainframes databases.
- Distributed objects might be used to allow people in different
cities to contributed to a particular
business process.
- Distributed objects can allow business processes to be modified or
re- implemented without altering
applications which use the distributed objects.
[This Q&A reprinted with permission from The CORBA
FAQ.]