>>>COM is a Winders thing.. but, if you want to run a com component you can set up a seperate Win/NT workstation or server to run your COM servers... also, if your COM servers crash windows you don't loose NetWork services.
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>>There is limited support available to allow native ?nix apps access DCOM services, but there's no capability of hosting COM or DCOM using native Linux code, or running a Win32 COM component AFAIK. Certainly not one of the emulators.
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>Isn't that what I said? I said (see above) if you want to run a COM component, you have to do it on a windows machine.

The problem is "COM is a Winders thing"; there is limited COM support for ?nix froma COM client perspective certainly, and since DCOM is basically a set of interfaces whose implementation si completely hidden from the client, a very talented programmer could create a Linux native app that responded to and behaved as a COM server in a DCOM environment; a major PITA, but at least in theory it's doable.

But we agree completely, VFP stuff won't run under Linux, and neither would standard Win32 COM servers.