[badgersandjam]

Spot on. I can't say enough good things about COM; it's enabled some quite amazing things for me over the years and really top notch distributed systems that are easy to manage.

[quotemstr]

I wish the FOSS world hadn't abandoned CORBA all those years ago.

[badgersandjam]

I'm not sure why you were downvoted - it's a valid solution.

To be honest, I'd rather see DCE/RPC (DCOM's ancestor) make an appearance without some of the pain points of DCOM.