Hello, my name is Steve Totten (mailto:totten_s@ociweb.com). I am an object oriented software engineer specializing in developing and teaching about distributed object architectures with CORBA[1].
I work for a company in St. Louis, Missouri, USA called Object Computing, Inc. (http://www.ociweb.com) We provide commercial support, training, and documentation for The ACE ORB (TAO) (http://www.theaceorb.com), an open source C++ CORBA compliant ORB developed by the Centers for Distributed Object Computing at Washington University in St. Louis [2] and University of California at Irvine [3].