> Well, this OTOH would kill cuteidl.

  No, why? I am speaking about the ORB, not about the IDL. I know that
they are interdependent but unless I have a very bad understanding of what
is going on, cuteIDL is a new mapping, essentially idl2qt or idl2kde
instead of idl2c++. And it uses MICO as ORB. 

  So you can reuse most of the code and use the other ORB instead, because
the mashalling code should be the same (if I am not an absolute idiot).
Correct me if I am wrong. 

          Lotzi