Vendor's Description (from Readme files, web site, etc.):

Borland DataSnap provides developers with a suite of advanced components, services and core technologies for multi-tier application development. These services complement those provided by Microsoft with Windows NT 4.0 and DCOM.

... for more information, see the very extensive web site.

Our Comments:

The eployment license cost was lowered to $300 per server a while back, greatly reducing the most common objection to using this technology. Some of the other products have a $0 per-server deployment cost, which is correspondingly more appealing if you plan to deploy a lot of servers.

Other Useful Sites:

Dan Miser has useful information about DataSnap and DCOM:  http://www.distribucon.com/

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