About the time they released .NET MS announced "the end of com". I don't remember if they said they wouldn't support it anymore or described it as being "deprecated" or "discontinued"... Certainly there are still people working with it as it takes time for something that's become wide-spread to die off, but as MS has said as much as "it's garbage" it wouldn't be very helpful to someone's career to build anything new with COM and of course, many people who've built much of their careers on COM suddenly had to (or maybe still have to) choose between relearning (years of training essentailly down the drain) or surviving on the niche of gradually deminishing COM implementations still in use, like COBOL programmers. I'm not saying there's not merrit to change, even in moving away from COM necessarily -- but you asked why people care what Longhorn is based on and I'd imagine this fear is a good part of the reason why people are so anxious about Longhorn.
I don't have any specific url's handy, but it was talked about quite a bit on the HOF lists when MS made the announcement. > COM is still a viable and used technology. In VS.NET, you > can compile a .NET > assembly into a COM object. I don't see COM going away > any time soon, nor > any plans to do away with it. What source do you have > that says COM is > garbage? > Matthew Small > Web Developer > American City Business Journals > 704-973-1045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: S.Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Think .Net is in MS's future? think again.. > Fear of having all their work suddenly garbaged like what > happened with COM. >> Why does anybody even care what it's based on? >> Matthew Small >> Web Developer >> American City Business Journals >> 704-973-1045 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:159318 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
