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In the Microsoft world, one can use Visual Basic and Active-X for a component based approach to both client and middle (application server) levels
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On the middle tier, one uses IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server i.e. their HTTP server) and MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server)
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COM (formerly DCOM) is Microsoft's distributed shared object model and gives a component based approach to both sequential and distributed computing
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MTS provides management of sharing, processes, network connections, database connections and pools of threads
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Microsoft supports multiple languages (C, C++, Java, Visual Basic) but essentially only the Windows operating system
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