I think the following are innovative:

CORBA is reputed to be a better technology than Microsoft's COM and is free at www.corba.org

CORBA is I guess. I wonder how old CORBA is.

I believe text-to-speech is better with the open source community but this same open sourced technology is available for both Windows and Linux

Hrm, dunno about this, I've watched bruce battle with this and fail miserably :)

Perl\Python scripting is better than anything Microsoft has come up with. I am not sold on Microsoft's Visual Basic.

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