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Introduction Members of the CBDi Forum can not fail to be aware of Microsoft’s initiatives in trying to make the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) component platform the de facto standard. The platform has escaped from Redmond in various product offerings that have gradually taken root in our toolkits. First DCOM for NT4 server, then the Windows 95 download, followed by major increments in its scalability delivered through Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ). The Distributed InterNet Applications (DNA) framework, a marketing packaging exercise if ever I saw one, did its best to stitch the various server products, tools, and Web standards into so |
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