Component Object Model

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Component Object Model
Common Object Model

   <programming> (COM) An open software architecture from {DEC}
   and {Microsoft}, allowing interoperation between
   {ObjectBroker} and {OLE}.  Microsoft evolved COM into {DCOM}.

   On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel he
   says, "It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the
   'Common Object Model.'  He deeply regrets it and apologizes
   profusely."

   ["Essential COM", Don Box].

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   (1999-06-12)