>I wanted to wait before I threw this one out since a few weeks back I heard a respectable MS Developer clearly say, "...COM & DCOM is dead". The content of the presentation was about XML. However, during a break I ask the speaker what exactly he meant by saying, "COM & DCOM is dead." Again, he comfirmed the fact that COM is a dead and compared it to DDE. He continued saying, "DDE is still available but no longer being used - that's where COM & DCOM is ." (I think I'm para-phrasing the last sentence)
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>I don't doubt that at some point COM & DCOM will probably be out dated technology but to say that at this point in the game I feel is a little harsh. I was wondering if I can get some input back from all of you on this topic.


COM is definately not dead, it's been renamed .Net and additional features have been added. Last year at this time, .Net was called COM+ 2.0.