Com beyond microsoft

COM Beyond Microsoft draws upon Compaq Computer Corporation's breakthroughs with OpenVMS and Tru 64 UNIX~ to explain how the COM standard can help organizations integrate their applications and heterogeneous computer systems. COM Beyond Microsoft details the innovative COM support within Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS and reveals how developers car design COM applications that run virtually unchanged on either platform, on Windows NT or Windows 2ooo, and even on other Major computer platforms.

Readers will understand the business and technical benefits of building portable and distributed applications on COM, especially versus other strategies and technologies, such as CORBA and Java. COM Beyond Microsoft details the APIs, utilities, libraries, and run-time environments developers must understand to create COM applications for Open VMS and Tru64 UNIX. The book features implementation and configuration techniques for running COM programs on Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS.

Featuring a CD-ROM containing valuable COM sample applications, COM Beyond Microsoft uniquely explains a Controversial topic of major interest to organizations and developers.

Contents

• List of figures
  
• List of tables
  
• Preface
  
• Part I : C O M on Compaq Platforms
  
• Part II : COM for Open VMS
  
• Part III : COM for Tru 64 UNIX
  
• Part IV: Appendices
  
• List of figures
  
• List of Tables