>Thanks, Craig. I read your article, Randy Brown's and several others on MTS last night. It seemed like MTS could be a big piece of this puzzle until I searched the Microsoft site and could find no mention of MTS or the NT 4 Option Pack. Does anyone know if this is still available, and if so, where? I probably should have mentioned that the COM server was created in VFP 6 -- if that matters. We're probably the last folks on the planet without access to VFP 7.
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It's available here on the MS site. http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/default.asp

>Am I correct in thinking that putting Windows 2000 Server on the workstation would make life much easier. In addition to the cost of hardware and software upgrades, there would probably be licensing issues to access the machine from the Internet. It could make a small project too costly -- unless I can amortize the costs over future enhancements.

I also prefer Win2K over NT. The biggest reason is that all the things I had to install as part of the OPtion Pack is now part of the OS installation (IIS, MSMQ, MTS, etc.).