Bob,

>I am kind of questioning the future direction of this magazine since COM development might be phased out to make room for the .Net assimblies that are much easier to deploy and run faster in web services.

We are focused on providing advanced articles for developers using Microsoft technologies. Although our name is legally Component Developer Magazine, our nickname is CoDe Magazine. The Component part of the name refers more to the trend to n-Tier and distributed architectures, more than COM itself, and we will continue to focus on new, emerging technologies, as we have from the beginning.