> I've been experimenting with a Foxpro program (configured as a OLE Server) > as the central server. > Unfortunately, the instance of the server object created in the client > program knows nothing about the other clients server object so it can't > "broadcast" the neccesary changes. Is DDE the appropriate solution for this > problem. no if anything NETDDE (I think this was its name) will work basically you need comunications with a remote server (DCOM vs. COM) but I think it would be much simpler for you to implement it using VFP tables create a joint QUEUE table where each program will leave msgs for the other programs and make each program scan this file for msgs waiting > What is the future of DDE anyway. I was under the impression that is was > being replaced by OLE. no future to DDE Arnon