Boston Area COM User’s Group Meeting Notice 
September 17, 1997, 6:00pm, Ontos Software, Lowell, Ma 
Directions: http://www.ontos.com/cont.htm 
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Agenda: 
6:00     Pizza 
6:15     Business 
6:30     COM+ 101 Introductory Concepts of COM+. Microsoft Speaker 
6:50     An approach to using COM in the implementation of Business 
            Objects and Data Objects. Bob Donald, Ontos 
7:30     This is Your Brain on COM. Jonathan Borden, JABR Technology 
Abstracts and bios below. 
Future meetings: 
October 15 
             David Platt: COM Support in VJ++ 
             Tim Ewald: COM Threading 
November 19 
              Richard Hale Shaw: COM is Cool! 
(http://www.richardhaleshaw.com/COM-DCOM-BootCamp.html) 
Speakers and sponsors, contact pbyrne@averstar.com. 
Presentation Abstracts & Speaker Bios 
An approach to using COM in the implementation 
of Business Objects and Data Objects. Bob Donald, Ontos 
Today’s applications are moving towards supporting an N-Tiered 
architecture (if they are not there already).  Bob Donald will 
discuss the roles of Business Objects and Data Objects within 
an application and how COM and MTS can be used to bring 
them into the N-Tiered arena.   This is a technical discussion 
about issues such as distributed components, transactions, 
scalability, deployment, and statefull vs stateless objects in 
support of an N-Tiered architecture. 
Biography 
Bob Donald is a Senior Software Architect with ONTOS, Inc., 
a leading provider of component-based application development 
solutions. He has nine years of software engineering experience 
in building 3-tier applications and developing component-based 
solutions in COM and CORBA. Donald was the Principal 
Software Engineer at True Software, Inc., before joining ONTOS. 
He also held Software Architect and Senior Software Architect 
positions at Epsilon Data Management, Inc. and Marketmax, 
Inc./Green Mars Software, Inc., respectively. Donald earned 
a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science, with a minor 
in Business Administration, from the University of Massachusetts 
at Lowell. 
This is Your Brain on COM. Jonathan Borden, JABR Technology 
DCOM for telemedicine consultations including DCOM/MTS techniques to 
move multimedia around. 
Biography: 
Jonathan Borden M.D. 
President, JABR Technology Corp, 
21 School Street, Boston MA 
Attending Neurosurgeon, New England Medical Center and Beth-Israel 
Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Tufts 
University School of Medicine, Boston 
M.D. Yale University, School of Medicine, 1988 
B.A.(Neuroscience) Amherst College, 1984 
My background includes AI and imaging technologies applied to brain 
modeling and analysis of 3D neural imaging data. JABR was founded to 
help medical specialists communicate clinical information over computer 
networks. The object oriented multimedia communications system is 
developed on a COM/MTS framework. JABR has recently introduced 
the "New England Neurosurgical Network" which is a secure, high-speed, 
Internet based network linking Boston hospitals and neurosurgeons to 
provide rapid and accurate diagnosis of brain and spinal cord problems. 
Best regards, 
-- 
Pat Byrne 
AverStar 
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