On one hand, DCOM defines a per-platform binary standard, so customers and developers can mix and match components generated with tools from different vendors and use them with different implementations of the DCOM runtime itself. Even though the details of the DCOM run-time library (Object Request Broker) may vary from implementation to implementation, the interaction between the run-time library and the components, as well as between components, is standardized. Unlike other, more abstract object models, with DCOM it is possible to distribute a single binary version of a component for a given platform that works with all other components and run-time libraries.