FYI for interested individuals. Soffie Microsoft Federal Invites You To The **** COM, CORBA, and EJB Middleware Technology Workshop *** ...featuring Roger Sessions, the world's leading expert in COMWare November 19, 1999 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Microsoft Washington DC Office 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 5th Floor Chesapeake Room Washington DC, 20015 REGISTER NOW FOR THIS FREE EVENT - Just call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368) and reference corresponding event code: 27878 Seating is limited. Registration beginning at 7:45am FREE for all attendees, Roger Session's book, "COM And DCOM: Microsoft's Vision For Distributed Objects" published by John Wiley and Sons The next generation of software systems will be based on three-tier plus architectures and Component Oriented Middleware (COMWare) in the middle tier. COMWare combines the flexibility of building with Components and the highly scalable infrastructure of Transaction Processing Monitors. The industry is in widespread agreement that COMWare represents the future of software systems. But how do you choose among the three main COMWare platforms? Will COM+ provide the solution, with its next generation operating system and component runtime environment? Will Enterprise Java Beans give us the long awaited answer to vendor neutrality? Will CORBA scale up to support commerce on the web? In this talk Roger Sessions, one of the world's leading experts in COMWare, compares the three dominant COMWare models: Microsoft's COM+, Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans, and OMG's CORBA 3.0. He will discuss the common design features of all three COMWare platforms, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how to get them to work together in a heterogeneous world. *****Roger Sessions***** Roger Sessions is one of the world's leading experts in distributed component technology. He has extensive experience with Microsoft's COM/DCOM/MTS, OMG's CORBA, and Sun's Enterprise Java Beans. He has written four books, dozens of articles, and spoken at innumerable conferences. He writes and publishes the ObjectWatch Newsletter, a widely read and highly regarded newsletter on Distributed Component Technologies. Past issues are available at http://www.objectwatch.com <http://www.objectwatch.com> . His most recent book is published by John Wiley and Sons, and is called "COM and DCOM: Microsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects". Michael Rosenthal Microsoft Federal Systems 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20015 202-895-2186 800-872-0847 (pager) 202-364-8853 202-262-3227 (mobile) [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------