The first book to describe how Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) can be supported on computer systems other than Windows.Drawing on Compaq's groundbreaking work of porting COM/DCOM to itsOpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX Alpha platforms, COM Beyond Microsoft explains howthe COM standard can help enterprises integrate their applications across aheterogeneous computing environment. This book details the innovative COMsupport now native on Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS and reveals how developers canexploit COM on OpenVMS and COM on Tru64 UNIX to create portable softwarecomponents that run virtually unchanged on OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, Windows NT,Windows 2000, and other major computing platforms.COM Beyond Microsoft highlights the business and technical benefitsof implementing distributed and portable COM applications, especially versusother strategies and technologies such as CORBA and Java. The book explainsthe APIs, utilities, libraries and run-time environments developers mustunderstand to create COM applications for OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX. It alsocontains implementation and configuration techniques for running COMprograms on Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS. The book includes a CD-ROM that contains binary and source code forsample COM applications, as well as instructions for building and modifyingthe samples for your own use. COM Beyond Microsoft uniquely explains acontroversial topic of major interest to organizations and developers in anenterprise computing context.First book on a controversial topic critically important to many large organizationsAuthors are among few in industry with relevantexperience