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[Roger Upole]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> QOTW:  "That is just as feasible as passing a cruise ship through a phone
> line." - Carsten Haese, on transporting a COM object across a network.
> Less vividly but more formally, as he notes, "A COM object represents a
> connection to a service or executable that is running on one computer.
> Transferring that connection to another computer is impossible."
>

While this is indeed a nice turn of phrase, in substance it's incorrect.
You can marshal a live COM object and unmarshal it on a different
machine.

          Roger



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