Is CORBA outdated? [on hold]

I'm just learning about midleware in class, and our teacher has told us about CORBA. Doing a bit of research, I've found that the last version (CORBA 3) was released in 2002, which seems quite old in the computers science (well, in fact I know there is also CORBA 3.3, released in 2012, but..)

So there's my question: is CORBA outdated?

Update: to make it less subjective, let's try asking some particular things:

1. Is being CORBA used in large new projects?


2. Does CORBA have known difficulties that makes it useless in that scene?


3. Are there new frameworks rising to fill its place?

I think all this fits quite well with the original question (and have been already answered)

Thanks in advance