Not to detract from your point, but nobody uses it because when network administrators everywhere started closing all the ports except for 80 (for "security!"), everybody moved to SOAP, that uses the port 80. And then, since the SOAP consortium doesn't have enough competency to create a full data transfer format, starting from XML and contained in a couple thousands pages of docs, in about a decade people said "enough!" and moved into what is commonly called REST.
The problem with component boundaries is there, but it's not really what CORBA did.
Not to detract from your point, but nobody uses it because when network administrators everywhere started closing all the ports except for 80 (for "security!"), everybody moved to SOAP, that uses the port 80. And then, since the SOAP consortium doesn't have enough competency to create a full data transfer format, starting from XML and contained in a couple thousands pages of docs, in about a decade people said "enough!" and moved into what is commonly called REST.
The problem with component boundaries is there, but it's not really what CORBA did.