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>In my comments, I think it is fair to say I confused n-tier with COM, which is definitly not the case.
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I suppose you're talking about ADO when you say that.

Just FYI, I just got of several large projects that had major problems
with ADO travelling across the middle tier. ADO kept locking up MTS objects over DCOM connections. Three different applications at three different locations all with the same problem <s>... not very inspiring. different configs in each lockups would occur either with straight ADO or ADOR recordsets.

Problem was resolved by hand marshalling ADO record sets as strings.

So much for cross process features - if you have to go the string route you can just as easily do that from a DBF.