Distributed Component Object Model

programming (DCOM) Microsoft's extension of their

Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed

across a network. DCOM has been submitted to the IETF as

a draft standard. Since 1996, it has been part of WindowsNT and is also available for Windows 95.

Unlike CORBA, which runs on many operating systems, DCOM

is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by Microsoft for

Microsoft Windows and by Software AG, under the name

"EntireX", for Unix and IBM mainframes. DCOM serves

the same purpose as IBM's DSOM protocol.

DCOM is broken because it's an object model that has no

provisions for inheritance, one of the major reasons for

object oriented programming in the first place.

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(2000-08-02)