Re: COM/COM+ Components running in Linux?

From: Joachim Feise (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:49:40 -0700

WTH said on 4/10/2004 10:33:

>>Yes. COM is ancient.
>>It even has fallen out of favor with M$. They now push .NET...
>
>
> I think you're confusing M$ pushing DCOM/MTS with COM. COM hasn't fallen
> out of favor.

You are apparently behind the times...

>>> BTW, the COM is open.
>>
>>Huh?
>>The only open fact is that COM is based on RPC.
>
>
> COM is an open binary specification. You didn't know that?

I obviously know more about it than you. Where is the spec, if it
is open?

> I spent 2 years at SoftImage using COM on Irix/NT. I must have been
> hallucinating. It also exists on OpenVMS, Digital Unix, Solaris, HP-Unix.

Only 2 years? And then you think you are an expert???
M$ has ported IE to Solaris and HP/UX. I assume that that included COM,
because IE needs it. But performance suckes (not suprisingly) and the
whole thing was canned.
SoftImage at one point was owned my M$. So you probably got some internal
spec from M$. That doesn't mean that it was open.

> You can write DCOM clients on Linux.

Of course you can. With enough time and money, you can reverse-engineer it
and then rebuild it (basically what the Samba-team does with respect to the
SMB protocol ...)
But nobody in his or her right mind would want to do that...

-Joe

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