>>In Strahl's book he makes a reference to MTS as follows on page 19.
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>>"Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) implements a resource management feature called Just In Time Activation that pools server resources by unloading and reloading servers as needed. (A future version of MTS will provide a real pool manager for pooling references to stateless objects.)"
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>>Does anyone know if MTS's latest version has a "real" pool manager now?
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>>TIA
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>Technically speaking, MTS no longer exists. It's now COM+. I haven't gotten far enough into my COM+ study to say if this has been changed or not.

COM+ has a real pool manager.