>>Erik:
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>>Then neither VB or VFP which both use the apartment thread model will able to take advantage of object pooling.
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>Right.
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>>I also heard that this feature will only be available on some versions of Win2000.
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>No, COM+ works on all versions. There are several other scalability features that only come in Win2K DataServer or Win2K AppServer: Network Load Balancing, Windows Clustering, and Component Load Balancing- all these pertain to multi-machine scaling for server farms.
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>>Well then, it looks like the pool manager in FOXISAPI is the way to go for scalability with VFP COM components?
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>That, or Rick's hand rolled pool manager that comes with WWWC.

I was under the impression that Rick's pool manager was superior to MTS. Apparently, that's still the issue. I wonder if you could pool VB com objects with Rick's pool manager.