Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?


"Brian Moelk" <bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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".

Nor is DDE (unless they finally killed it with Vista).

Dan


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