Middleware: WS vs CORBA

Just read a very interesting discussion about Web services and CORBA.
Worth to keep it linked.
Still got to see which is (if any) the impact of CORBA in the current trends, cause I am not fully edified yet.

And I need to gain the insight about upgrades in CORBA specification versions - from 2.x to 3.x.

Review on CORBA

I have to make a review on CORBA, and also on other distributed middleware (probably DCOM).
And is not that easy - as these are by now old fashioned. I am working to get whether they can still be usable, and I am trying to find them in the new buzzy trends like SOA, OSGi.

Do you have an opinion to share about the CORBA or DCOM state of the art?

CORBA - is it dying?

Wondering... is CORBA dying? If yes, why? If not, how come?