Object Challenges

Productivity
Reuse
Plug and Play Components
Automation
Scalability
Component Market

Brodie's 1995 worldwide survey of distributed object systems unearthed 201 applications. After detailed analysis, only 3 of the systems passed the fundamental test of logical/physical object independence, a fundamental requirement for true distributed object computing on the Internet.

References

Brodie, Michael. The Emperors Clothes are Object Oriented and Distributed. GTE Laboratories, 1997.
Nonaka, Ikujiro, Takeuchi, Hirotaka. The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.