Re: RPC to communicate between Windows and Unix

After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LGJ), an earthling, wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mshetty) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I want to use RPC to transfer data between Windows(2000, NT) and Unix.
>> 
>> Would help if I could get some information on the following:
>> a. Do we have an RPC that can be used on both Windows and Unix??
>> b. Is it freely available??
>> c. Would RPC be faster (at runtime) than CORBA??
>
> samba

Hmm?  Samba is basically a fileserver; the Linux equivalent to the
Windows equivalent to NFS.

I would think that the best answer would, in fact, be CORBA.  There
are implementations available on all the relevant platforms, including
ones available as "free software."  OmniORB, TAO, and ORBit all have
been run on both Unix and Windows, I believe.

The alternative would be to try to locate an ONC RPC implementation
that could work in both places; that strikes me as a dubious project,
as the "plain 'old RPC" schemes are mature to the point of
osteoperosis.  Finding code that will work in both places will be a
"brittle" matter.

The other option that might be worth looking at would be ICE, findable
at <http://www.zeroc.com/>.  It purports to learn from the lessons of
CORBA, so it might conceivably be "better" by some metrics.  The cost
may vary...
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