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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/02
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Check out DCOM Free for Linux:

http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/solutions/entirex/entirex.htm

COM/DCOM is alive and well on non-MS platforms.

COM+ can best be described to the Ada world as a MS defined thick
binding to COM.

David Botton


> COM (DCOM is really just COM with a some distribution features, COM+
> is the new thing) runs on other platforms besides Microsoft
> (Sun and HP, if I recall correctly).  Granted, though, it's primary
> use is on WinX platforms.
>