The practice of programmers' dragging and dropping GUI applications together, using component technologies such as ActiveX or JavaBeans controls, is increasingly commonplace. The IT marketing machine invites us to apply the same metaphor to full-scale business components: suddenly component-based development (CBD) is the latest hot topic.

In 1995, in a unanimous vote, the Object Management Group endorsed a specification for interoperability between OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Microsoft's Common Object Model (COM). The specification, known as CORBA/COM Interworking (CCI), is now implemented by dozens of products in use by thousands of end users.

In traditional client-server settings, a central and trusted host communicates with statically bound client processes through either asynchronous messages or synchronous remote procedure calls.

The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet.

The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet.

The practice of programmers' dragging and dropping GUI applications together, using component technologies such as ActiveX or JavaBeans controls, is increasingly commonplace.

The practice of programmers' dragging and dropping GUI applications together, using component technologies such as ActiveX or JavaBeans controls, is increasingly commonplace.

In 1995, in a unanimous vote, the Object Management Group endorsed a specification for interoperability between OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Microsoft's Common Object

A story in the 26 October issue of Information Week recently caught my eye: entitled "Top IT Secrets," it described a lawsuit filed by Wal-Mart Stores against Amazon.com and Drugstore.com for allegedly raiding its IT staff to gain access to trade secrets.

A story in the 26 October issue of Information Week recently caught my eye: entitled "Top IT Secrets," it described a lawsuit filed by Wal-Mart Stores against Amazon.com and Drugstore.com for allegedly raiding its IT staff to gain access to trade secrets.

A story in the 26 October issue of Information Week recently caught my eye: entitled "Top IT Secrets," it described a lawsu

A story in the 26 October issue of Information Week recently caught my eye: entitled "Top IT Secrets," it described a lawsu