>This is an exchange I had with someone recently and wanted to know if someone could verify that the assertions sound reasonable. Any additional insight/references welcome as well. There are a couple gaps where there was proprietary information, but the gist of it is here. Thanks!

Some of them are not correct. From what I understand you have a chance to compile it some way. If it's so why would you ever want to create a COM and deal with COM problems. Creating a COM and using it as a 'server' looks appealing but it's also a trouble IMHO. Instead create your objects as needed using those libraries. In code the difference looks like:

*COM
oMyObject = createobject('myCOMDLL.myCOMClass')

*non COM
oMyObject = newObject('myClass','myClassLib.prg') && or myClasslib.vcx

I would go with the latter (but that's me).
Cetin