Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?

From: Brian Moelk <bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:57:57 -0500

Rod wrote:

Have a look at the .net history and its predecessors:

API ->lives
DDE ->dead
COM ->dead
OLE ->dead
OCX ->dead
ActiveX ->dead
DCOM ->dead
COM+ ->dead
..Net -> ??? ;-))))

Any predictions?

IMO, COM and all it's variants (ActiveX, DCOM, COM+) are not "dead".

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Brian Moelk
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