The Birth Of ActiveX

Microsoft won another marketing battle in the object wars last week by finally agreeing to submit its ActiveX technology to the Open Group for ratification as a de facto industry standard. ActiveX in the house! Although the software giant has criticized such organizations in the past for being too slow and unwieldy, it has ostensibly handed its object crown jewels to a body packed full of Unix rivals which will help develop, brand, test and license them The Open Group will receive source code, specifications, reference implementations and validation tests. In return, Microsoft will get…