Redundant Arrays of Independent Components A technology that uses a group of identical or similar software components to provide higher reliability, better performance, or more flexibility. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cliu1/RAIC/

A Plea for Grey-Box Components by Martin Buchi and Wolfgang Weck. http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/FoCBS/buechi.html

History of Component Technology Explores some of the key events of object-oriented programming and components in the last 50 years in the greater context of general computing history. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-tmline/

Making Sense of Distributed Objects An assessment of COM, CORBA, and Java/RMI, by David Chappell. http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_Sense_Dist_Objects.html