>Hi David,
>
>we don't use a comserver now, we build a 'normal' foxpro DLL, and call this with ASP pages, so it surely can be instantiated by 1000 users at once
>
>-- Erwin

Erwin,
The term COM server refers to a single VFP DLL. VFP creates COM servers. You instantiate the object and request it to perform tasks.

Because you expect 1000+ users simultaneously, I would recommend looking into MTS/COM+ to host your COM DLL. One reason is I don't think the resources on the machine are enough to create 1000 separate instances of VFP. MTS/COM+ could alleviate much of this headache by instantiating a significantly smaller number of DLLs and cycling between them.

Take a look at Randy Brown's VFP article concerning MTS on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/mtsvfp.htm). Even if you are using Win2K now (and COM+), it is still appropriate.

HTH.