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>>It's all marketing. Why do you think that OLE became ActiveX then COM then COM+ then .Net?
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>COM+ is actually different than COM and the two are not the same. COM+ are component services - COM+ Applications, Queued Components, COM+ Events and the entire concept of COM objects hosted in COM+ Application container...

I understand that, but I'm not sure MS marketing does, which is what my comment was about.

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>I think that message was never clearly made from Microsoft though <s>...

I agree here.

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>.NET actually relies on COM+ for its scalability features, and it's process hosting services, so COM+ at least is alive and well. And since COM+ is based on the COM subsystem - there's no chance any of COM will go away anytime soon.

Thanks for clarifying that. I haven't looked much at .Net due to lack of time.