Microsoft Evangelist Interviews Corba God

Not really. It's just an interview of Steve Vinoski, formerly of IONA and now at a stealth mode startup, by Jon Udell, formerly of Byte and InfoWorld and now at Microsoft, from an undisclosed location.

Here's a few points that I find interesting:

• Steve's story about his transition from "IIOP is going to be built into the Netscape browser and we can do distributed objects across the web" to "the web is distributed objects"
• Jon's musing about "freeze-dried" VM machine instances being the new unit of distribution
• Their agreement that tools support for WS-* and REST are important and there are no industry leadership for REST tools