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To: Beachbumm who wrote (7842)2/19/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Kal  Respond to of 64865
 
interesting reads on ms' activeX.
news.com

Notice the abundant PR and image concerns as compared to actual technolgy issues
interestingly..
While the underlying COM technology remains
largely unchanged, the company's marketing
department is now working overtime to come up
with new acronyms and packaging for a basic
technology--Object Linking and Embedding--that
has remained the same for years.

and
"With DNA and DNS, they are going crazy with
acronyms."

How much activeX is COM? technically