Re: DCOM is now open code

[jeremy@xxxxxxxxx (Jeremy H. Griffith)]

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:24:08 -0500, "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Hope this will close the subject about DCOM as being a proprietary format
>and that now W3C will also include a DCOM IDL example for the DOM. We may
>have to implement a DOM implementation based on DCOM on the Linux platform,
>who knows :-).

Hmm.  The relevant page at Open Group,

  http://www.opengroup.org/comsource/

contains this definition of the DCOM package:

  While COMsource does not include the application programming interfaces
  (APIs) for object linking and embedding (OLE), or ActiveX? Controls, it 
  does provide the underlying technology upon which they (or similar
  technologies) can be built.

I read this as telling us that we get a *drawing* of a box on four wheels,
based on which we can design a car...  It does absolutely *nothing* toward
making the real-world OLE and ActiveX apps freely interoperable across
platforms.  Somebody thinks we are all mushrooms...  <bg>

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  (jeremy@xxxxxxxxx)  http://www.omsys.com/


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