Difference between COM and DCOM?

Question

What is the difference between COM and DCOM?

Answer 1

DCOM stands for "Distributed COM". This means that the client and server can be located on different computers exchanging over the network, and not on the same computer as in regular COM.

Answer 2

DCOM = Distributed Component Object Model, you can call it COM through RPC. DCOM - Wikipedia

Answer 3

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