Perhaps because distributed software objects play well ... It’s based on vendor-developed standards, such as DCOM and the Object Management Group’s Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) ...

has defined open standards to build interoperable distributed applications. First, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) introduced interoperability between heterogeneous distributed ...

The main goal of "MatchMaker" is the provision of a powerful yet easily applicable high-level API for synchronising distributed objects.