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To: Kashish King who wrote (525)	7/17/1998 12:55:00 PM
From: David R	of 5102

Rod, I only choose to respond to make one point perfectly clear. I have never been engaged in your COM/Bean holy war. COM is a fine technology (and process of sorts) for application development. It has complexities and frustrations to be sure, but it works. And it makes team development much easier (assuming the team is COM savvy). COM has grunge. The worst (in my experience) is the reference counting mess. We don't use VB, and few of our objects support IDispatch. Everything we do is geared for C++, and COM works fine. For all its short comings, COM solves the problems we have today for a product that we need to deliver today. That is all that really matters. I have no qualms or arguments against BEANS. In fact, I have been a leading proponent of Java in our product (where it makes sense). Unfortunately, we will only begin to get the functionality we require in JDK 1.2, so we have not been able to use Java yet. I have been one of the few champions of INPR acquisition (on this thread) of VSGN because I understand the importance of enterprise beans, and I think that INPR made a superb strategic decision (despite the short term pain to us share holders).

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