< programming > (DCOM) Microsoft 's extension of their Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed across a network . DCOM has been submitted to the IETF as a draft standard. Since 1996, it has been part of Windows NT and is also available for Windows 95 .
Unlike CORBA , which runs on many operating systems , DCOM is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and by Software AG , under the name " EntireX ", for Unix and IBM mainframes . DCOM serves the same purpose as IBM 's DSOM protocol .
DCOM is broken because it's an object model that has no provisions for inheritance , one of the major reasons for object oriented programming in the first place.
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