COM is short for Component Object Model, and is a name for a family of technologies by Microsoft you can find more details at http://www.microsoft.com/com http://www.microsoft.com/com/resource/drgui.htm VFP6 has better support for COM technologies, for example better intergration wiht MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) Arnon > >I see the word COM in reference to new features in VFP6.0 and I really don't understand what it means. Could someone explain? > >Thanks.