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From: papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
Subject: Re: IBM SOM and Visual Smalltalk for Windows
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In article <3ff6eb$826@lol.cs.columbia.edu>,
John D. Pritchard <jdp@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

>i've read the CORBA 1.1 doc which SOM is a limited implementation on,
>and would point you to the fact that Microsoft has it's own CORBA
>implementation (at least they're working on it, i don't know it's
>status) called COM, Component Object Model.  

COM is _not_ a CORBA implementation.  No Microsoft document will claim
this.

 Paul Prescod
