Date: Sep. 18, 2001
Link: http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/comdotnet_0901.html
Source Author or Organization: Juval Löwy, O'Reilly .NET News

This is a guide for companies that have already made a substantial investment in Component Object Model (COM) technologies and are preparing to move to the .NET framework.

Juval Löwy is the author of O'Reilly and Associates' COM and .NET Component Services. The article details the process of evaluating a company's code and applications to determine which will be affected by .NET adoption. The difference between interoperating with existing code and porting code is explained and the steps are laid out for re-classifying components and developing a migration plan. Löwy discusses designing for both COM and .NET after the migration project and explains the advantages of a COM+ environment with Web services support.