>>My PHB wants to use DCOM because it's "newer" (I think he's been reading articles again :)
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>Isn't DCOM obsolete now with COM+?

No, it's still called DCOM.

> And if you want the NEWEST technology you have to go with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocall) :-)

You got that right. Except that SOAP requires a webserver. But I predict that in 5 years, we will be using SOAP, or another similar protocol in most situations that now use DCOM.