>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?

Yes. The COM architecture is no longer used in .NET - .NET components are called web services and run under the CLR (Common Language Runtime). Legacy COM and COM+ components can still be called from .NET apps using assemblies or something.

By the way, the CEO of Forrester Research (Cambridge, MA) says the web browser is dead so don't take these things to too much heart (and just when I started to get good at web design too).

-JT