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>I don't know much about DCOM other than what I've read in articles, but I thought DCOM was supposed to make objects available for use no matter where they are (local or network) in a transparent fashion. Using a new function specifically for Remote Objects seems to fly in the face of this. Is there something I am missing, or is this yet another kludge to get something to work in VFP that already works in other MS products? Thanks for any insight you can provide.



VFP will work fine with DCOM as other products do. What VFP 6 offers is an ADDITIONAL capability... The ability to instantiate an object and specify which machine it will instantiate on (thereby overriding the registry settings). I can see this as being *very* useful for apps that have top scale real big.