COM Beyond Microsoft Designing: Designing and Implementing COM Servers on Compaq Platforms

COM Beyond Microsoft explains how COM can be supported by non-Microsoft operating systems and how, by using COM, programmers can create applications capable of running on a variety of different systems, an important ability that has long eluded developers and organizations. The book specifically discusses Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS and how developers can design their COM programs to run unchanged on either platform, on Windows NT, and on other major platforms. Compaq is the first company to establish support for COM within a non-Microsoft operating system, but others are following.