Yesterday, one of my friends asked me about some DCOM stuffs, because they are doing something in it, it was an old product but they have to make some enhancement in that and its pretty much undocumented stuff,
DCOM - i should say it was the most innovative technology from microsoft. but i never think anybody has got a chance to use all of its features. because the concept of binary software components and its inter interoperability across the platforms( theory claims so, but not microsoft)
gave a new momentum to software architecture. the age of OWL and ActiveX seemed to be completely conquered by its COM implementations. but when it comes to the DCOM, ( CORBA was also there in that time...) i suspect, something happened to the microsoft as such. they invested a lot for the DCOM, but that wasn't a success in the market as their ATL COM.
DCOM provides the COM services remotely, usually in a network ( intra/ inter) the location transparency adds more flexibility to the application counterparts. but they completely shifted their business strategies to the .NET market by that time.
but that was a wise investment, they built today's webservice upon this DCOM architecture, a more lighter implementaion in the user perspective...
the concept of webservice, was commercially availed by the passport authentication service by the hotmail/msn network, and still its legacy going on...
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