Microsoft posts Solaris version of ActiveX

One of the biggest complaints against ActiveX is that the technology isproprietary. Well, Microsoft today took the first step toward ending thatcriticism by releasing a beta of ActiveX that runs on the Sun Solaris operating system. The Solaris release includes support for the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)and the Component Object Model (COM)technologies that enable ActiveX components to exist and communicate witheach other.

The software is available from the Software AG Web site. Software AG isa German software maker that Microsoft recruited to write the port. Thecompany will release beta versions of these technologies for Digital UNIXand Linux later this month, with final versions of all three due nextmonth. Due later this year is ActiveX support for the Apple Macintosh,IBM MVS, HP-UX, SCO UNIXWare, IBM AIX, IBM OS/400, Digital OpenVMS, andSiemen Nixdorf Sinix.

The ActiveX specification is now controlled by the OpenGroup, an international consortium of vendors, ISVs and end-user customers from industry, government, and academia.

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