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A bigger problem for Sun is that they had no integrated desktop object programming solution. Although [[C++]] object libraries were becoming common on some platforms, their own [[SunOS]] (later known as [[Solaris Operating System|Solaris]]) operating system and associated [[SunView]] and [[X Window System|X]] window systems were 'plain C' based. In order to supply a comprehensive and flexible object programming solution, Sun turned to NeXT and the two developed [[OpenStep]]. The idea was to have OpenStep programs calling DOE objects on Sun servers, providing a backoffice-to-frontoffice solution on Sun machines. OpenStep was not released until 1993, further delaying the project.
By the time DOE, now known as NEO, was released in 1995, Sun had already moved on to [[Java (programming language)|Java]] as their next big thing. Java was now the GUI of choice for client-side applications, and Sun's OpenStep plans were quietly dropped (see [[Lighthouse Design]]). NEO was re-positioned as a Java system with the introduction of '''Joe''', but it saw little use.
Although distributed objects, and CORBA in particular, were the 'next big thing' in the early 1990s, by the second half of the decade interest in them had essentially disappeared. Web-based applications running entirely on the server became the new 'next big thing', and the need for a powerful display system on the client-side was simply dropped and replaced by lightweight GUIs based on [[HTML]].
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