| Abstract: |
DCOM for the Enterprise Why would you use DCOM Across the Enterprise? There has been a flurry of announcements from Microsoft and its partners, signalling a major change of strategy for DCOM, to enable interoperability with existing applications. This paper discusses some of the reasons why you would use DCOM for this, and some issues surrounding the announcements. To recap and summarise, Microsoft themselves announced initiatives to enable COM on UNIX, including licensing the Software AG COM port for UNIX. IONA announced licensing of COM and the intent to provide interoperability between COM and CORBA, as well as early integration of IONA products with MTS. IONA also announced their first C |