[svlug] Programers out there; DCOM Linux - MS world connection

[Rafael]

Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> Rafael quoted _Information Week_:
> 
> > "With the release of Windows NT® 4.0, a powerful new dimension to
> > component programming has emerged. Distributed COM (DCOM) allows objects
> > on different computers to communicate through common protocols,
> > including Internet and Web-based protocols. Until this watershed event,
> > object communication was limited to a
> > single system, or required expensive programming or utility software to
> > function over a network.
> >
> > SOFTWARE AG, working in conjunction with the Windows NT development team
> > at Microsoft, has extended the reach of this powerful object development
> > model. Now, with the availability of DCOM for the EnterpriseTM (DCOM
> > FTETM), component communication can span all the systems in an
> > organization, from PC to UNIX to
> > mainframe. And familiar, proven COM interfaces provide the basis for a
> > new generation of powerful, flexible, and adaptable application
> > systems."
> > ----
> > I guess we (Linux users) won't be locked out from Win apps and
> > administration of common objects when on the net.
> 
> Isn't "DCOM" what they used to call "Network OLE"?  Gaack!  The thought
> of letting that hideous, bloated OLE code loose on a Linux box brings
> back images of chthonian horror, from when I worked next to programmers
> chained to dank cubicles and compelled to code that stuff.
> 
Agree, however, you may highjack the server (NT) with Linux and
penetrate the network with more efficient system. The efficiency is easy
to prove when your (Linux) machine is on the net already.

> > Where do you want to connect your Linux today?
> 
> How 'bout to the OpenDoc project, instead?
> 
CORBA.
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>

With the previous post I just wanted to point out that there are big
boys realizing the power and potential of Linux. DCOM is NOT my way of
doing things. We need companies for the Expo and I don't care if MS
comes there to show their stuff and say they can connect to Linux, we
just chargem double, they have (our) $$$. I wish they would; we could
compare it right there.

Rafael

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