You may be interested in an article about this that was published by Roger Sessions.

Go to http://www.objectwatch.com, click on "ObjectWatch Newsletter", then on "Past Issues" and checkout "Issue 30 (October 20, 2000)"

It is Roger's reply to a report by Gartner (yes, those same guys) about COM beign dead.


>A few months back I attended a User Group Meeting where Ken Levy was speaking on XML. He mentioned that "COM was dead". He continued to compare COM with DDE - saying that it's still available but no one is using it.
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>I don't quite understand why he would say this - do you?