COM

From Govit

"A successor to Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM); introduced in 1998.COM+ is essentially an extension of Microsoft's application server the MicrosoftTransaction Server (MTS) enhanced with advanced features (called ""COM+Services"") such as thread isolation; security; memory management and systemmanagement. Microsoft initially intended COM+ to be a new programming model;enhancing and extending COM for server applications. While COM+ fulfilled this goalto a certain extent; the scope of these original plans was reduced over time. SeeCOM and MTS."