>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.

Just to add here, you can do this in VFP 5 as well, but it's a heck of a lot
more difficult to do, precisely because you have to set up security on both
the local and remote machine.

CreateObjectEx() limits this to the remote machine entirely and the server
does not have to exist on the client.

Security issues still exist though - you still need to make sure that hte
client user has access on the remote machine, which can be tricky. This is
not a fun thing to debug <s>...

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