COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL
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(COM) An open software architecture from DECand Microsoft, allowing interoperation betweenObjectBroker and OLE. Microsoft evolved COM into DCOM.On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel hesays, "It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the'Common Object Model.' He deeply regrets it and apologizesprofusely."["Essential COM", Don Box].[Details? URL?]
By Denis Howe
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