Is COM+ dead?
I've been giving this some thought lately .. ok, actually its been on my mind since .NET came out. it strikes me that com+ has never really caught on. sure in the pre-.net times you couldn't hardly go to a conference and not see serveral com+ talks on the agenda. but did people take the technology home with them? I doubt it. if you don't believe me ask yourself .. where's the noise about com+ in the newsgroups?, what does microsof's logo look like for com+? where were all the enterprise services talks at this years PDC? what's the most commonly used service of com+? com+ is one of those things that every developer thinks he/she needs to know about in order to be a guru, but when the time comes to use it in an app the techology is either over looked or excuses arise against its use. cheif among those excuses is performance: "i'll take too big of a performance hit if i use X service", "the com interop layer that i have to go through will kill my app", "the benefit doesn't out weight the overhead".. hmmm, really? If you've used these arguments, please let Shannon Paul give you a
dose of reality
ok, let's say for a moment that COM+ does indeed impead your applications with crippling overhead. this is mearly an implementation problem. isn't the concept of "services for code" still valid? i've heard rumors that com+ services will not be extended in longhorn ... they will instead be swallowed by indigo. i'm anxious to see how this plays out.
however in the mean time i can't wait for longhorn. it might just be time to
rally the troups and save this concept ;-)
my first post .. ever! i'm taking a break from getting my new linux box up and running. i choose SuSe 'cause that's what best buy had on the shelf today. I had two shocking revolations today about SuSe: 1. i understand it was a german kompany (e.g. german spin on things). i had a flash back to a horrible project i did years ago involving SAP R/3. 2. 2. Novell (my long time nemasis) has bought suse! urgh! i might be switching to Red Hat or Debian soon.
