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Industry adoption
Industry-wide collaboration on spec
Reflects collective experience and expertise
Ensure broad support
Overwhelming industry adoption
Flexibility in product selection
No vendor lock-in
Inter-server portability
Transparently add/replace server from vendors
Scalability
Wire protocol independent
IIOP, JRMP, DCOM, DCE, etc.