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2.7.7 OpenDoc and SOM Summary and Outlook

   One of the greatest benefits of the SOM technology is the single 
   programming model it is providing.  SOM scales very good from local to 
   distributed objects, from small systems running Windows or OS/2 to large 
   systems with MVS.  It is based on an open standard not controlled by one 
   vendor. 

   OpenDoc is based on SOM Level 2.11, which is part of OS/2 Warp Version 3. 
   This SOM/DSOM release level is CORBA1.2 compliant. That means, only the 
   ORB functions together with the SOM RRBC support is included, no object 
   services as described in the COSS services.  With the next version of SOM 
   many of the COSS services such as naming, event, persistence, transactions 
   and concurrency are included.  With these functions implemented, OpenDoc 
   components can benefit and use all of the object services as described in 
   this chapter. 

   IBM has described a whole architecture which gives a great picture of how 
   all of these IBM puzzle pieces such as database, networking object 
   services and OpenDoc, fit together.  It is called the IBM Open Blueprint. 
   A description of this open blueprint is on the The Developer Connection 
   for OS/2 Volume 9.  It can be viewed using The Developer Connection 
   Browser. 

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