I don't want to put words in Ken's mouth, but did he mention anything about Web Services? Much of what COM/DCOM do now will be done in the future with Web Services and SOAP. In this sense, COM is dead. I believe VFP7 was written with this in mind for building and consuming services.

-Dave

>A few months back I attended a User Group Meeting where Ken Levy was speaking on XML. He mentioned that "COM was dead". He continued to compare COM with DDE - saying that it's still available but no one is using it.
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>I don't quite understand why he would say this - do you?