Hi folks, an interesting COM+ seminar is coming up in January across Canada. Here is an excerpt:

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Join us for a three-hour tour of COM+ and middle-tier components by one of the world's leading experts in Component Oriented Middleware (COMWare), Roger Sessions.

Roger will give an overview of the COMWare industry, discuss its critical importance in the development of Web-based commerce systems, and contrast the three leading COMWare models: COM+, Enterprise JavaBeans, and the CORBA Component Specification.
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I would imagine something similar will be offered in the US.

Info is at: http://events.microsoft.com/isapi/events/search_results.asp?s=0&eventcode=&eventkeyword=MSDN&countrycode=CA&stateprovince=0&timeframe=2m&producttype=0