Why Should I Read This Paper?

If you are a CIO, solution architect, or application developer who wants to create state-of-the-art applications that scale equally well on an intranet, the Internet, and beyond, DCOM can help. This White Paper provides a high-level overview of how you can use DCOM to solve the hardest problems associated with distributed applications. Has any of your applications ever needed (or will need):

• to provide fault-tolerance in the case of hardware failures?
• to be installed in a small workgroup environment as well as a large corporate site?
• to be robust in the presence of network failures?
• to accommodate a wide variety of client machines with different capabilities or in different geographical areas?
• to be more efficient in terms of network load?

This paper will show you how DCOM can help you solve these and other problems in both existing applications and completely new designs.