Thanks Josh, John and Craig - that helped a lot!

I must still admit confusion regarding ActiveX/COM (I thought they were useable interchangeably) , but I suppose that will clarify in time.

Cheers,

Jim N

>That's impressive, but it still means that you'll have to write your own pool manager and loose a significant benifit of MTS.
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>>George Goley spoke on this at Tech Ed. He said they had tested systems with over 130 instances of VFP running and the performance was fine. Pretty amazing huh?
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>>John Harvey