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>Complete ignoramous who knows nothing about the software development environment in today's businesses. COM is being used more heavily than ever in today's business environments and it's popularity is growing. COM+ will only further the practically of the COM solution and provide a clear migration path for current COM applications with minimal modifications.
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>XML is NOT a replacement for COM. COM+ will take COM's place but only after a year or so. If anything is going to be phased out, it's MTS.
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>-JT


Nope. MTS is still there. It's just not called MTS. Under NT, MTS sat ontop of the OS. With Windows 2000, it's integrated into the OS as part of COM+.