This is both salvation for fans of the C language, and good news for proponents of other languages. C has the advantage of being the lowest common denominator of almost all other language implementations. A second advantage is the resource friendliness of ORBit. In preliminary performance tests, ORBit came out ahead of ILU, mico, omniORB, and TAO, other well-known free ORB's. 2.93 seconds ORBit supports collocated servers, aka in-process servers.
ORBit also uses less memory than the other ORBs.
Other expositions of the ORB internals and extensions allow libraries and applications to leverage ORBit to the fullest advantage. Sample implementations of the event and name services are included in ORBit to make it easy to build more complex applications. The development tree is available to everyone via anonymous CVS, an ORBit mailing list facilitates interesting discussions, and contributions are welcomed. More information on all of these is available at the ORBit web page. Inc. All rights reserved.