Hi Lary:

>>>With 20 local machines each running 2 instances of MyCom.EXE on the server - that's 40 instances running at once:
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>>>2. Is there a better way.
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>>Yes. Make it a multithreaded COM DLL, stick it in an MTS/COM+ application, and let your clients create it through MTS. Check out the whitepaper on VFP and MTS at the MSDN website for more information.
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>This would work great provided the COM server was written with a stateless nature in mind.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, the COM server is stateless. The next question was: Will MTS slow down my program because each program in the application polls the COM server every second (this IS necessary)?

Mal