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NATs are the reason REST won over CORBA et al.

I don't think NAT had an awful lot to do with that.

CORBA just didn't work across organization's internal networks when NATs started appearing in the late 90s. I am convinced it would have had such a lead it would have dominated. Web services appeared to rectify NATs/CORBA, but it sucked as a standard. Then came REST to fix web services. The root cause was NATs, IMO.

While NATs might have contributed to its demise, there were more fundamental reasons why CORBA failed.

For anyone interested in thorough analysis instead of opinions I recommend this really good article from 1994:

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...

The root cause was not NAT. Web Services were CORBA-inspired so that's a pretty solid data point that it wasn't NAT.

You might enjoy this for a laugh, though (Aug. '96 vintage).

https://i.imgur.com/iVDUypy.jpg

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