>object deals with native VFP cursors. It handles the translation to ADO or XML >for you, if necessary.
>
>The next version of MM will be using XML as the data transport mechanism. The architecture will utilize the windows DNA model, much like COM codebook, but with much more flexibility!

Yup, isn't that what I said? ;-) Actually, one of the things I really liked about the new version is that it actually tackles the problem of describing how to set-up a physically distributed app. Most other descriptions I've seen gloss over this. It's the first "start-to-finish" documentation I've found.