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Welcome to the latest release of The ACE ORB (TAO).  TAO is a freely
available, open-source implementation of a CORBA 3.x-compliant ORB
that supports real-time extensions.  Please see
www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/TAO for more information on TAO
features, services, and the status of current work.  In addition,
document for TAO is available in the $TAO_ROOT/docs/ subdirectory in
HTML format.

We welcome suggestions for improvement, bug fixes, portability
enhancements, etc. and will strive to integrate correct bug fixes
quickly!  The current release has been tested extensively, but if you
find any bugs, please report them to the TAO mailing list
[email protected] using the $TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM.
Please see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-mail.html for details on how
to subscribe to the mailing list.

Please use the same form to submit questions, comments, etc.
To ensure that you see responses, please do one of the following:

    1) Subscribe to the tao-users mail list, by sending email with
       contents "subscribe tao-users" to
       [email protected].

    2) Or, monitor the comp.soft-sys.ace newsgroup for responses.

Thanks,

        Douglas C. Schmidt
        [email protected]