The Joy of Reference Counting
- Discusses referencing counting in COM, and briefly contrast with the approach taken by CORBA, by David Chappell.
- http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_Refer_Counting.html

Building COM Components on UNIX
- Discusses DCOM on the UNIX platform. It covers platform compatibility issues, the UNIX-specific architecture of DCOM, and implementing a DCOM component on UNIX. By Christian Gross, euSOFT.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_unixcom.htm

COM, DCOM, and Related Capabilities
- An evaluation of COM architecture, by Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
- http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/com.html