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'''Distributed Objects Everywhere''' ('''DOE''') was a long-running [[Sun Microsystems]] project to build a [[distributed computing]] environment based on the [[CORBA]] system in the "back end" and [[OpenStep]] as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained [[vaporware]] for many years before it was finally released as '''NEO''' in 1995. It was was sold for only a short period before being dropped (along with OpenStep) in 1996. In its place is what is today known as [[Java Enterprise ObjectsJavaBeans]], although the success of this effort is arguable as well.

In the early 1990s the "next big thing" in computing was to use desktop [[microcomputer]]s to display and edit data being provided by [[mainframe]] and [[minicomputer]]s. Although a number of methods for this sort of access already existed, the division of labor was not at all even. For instance, [[SQL]] required the workstation to download huge data sets and then process them locally, whereas [[terminal emulator]]s did all of the work on the server and provided no [[GUI]].