Duane Percox ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I must be feeling frisky these days (technically that is...).
: Microsoft has upped the ante a bit with the introduction of network ole in
: the recent release of vb (vb4) for developing distributed objects. I'm not
: interested in debating the merits of their implementation, but I did want to
: see if anyone had heard about a supposed port of the non-ui components of
: ole distributed objects to these platforms:
 
: ibm vms
: dec vms, unix (whatever its called this month)
: hp  ux, mpe
 
The last I heard, Digital were implementing COM on non-Windows servers for
MS. This would include OpenVMS and non-DEC UNIX platforms. In fact, I
seem to recollect that DEC have a product that allows OLE conformant
s/w to talk to their CORBA ORB.
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