[NTLUG:Discuss] COM and Linux

[Bob Byron]

Well, I wouldn't wrap it in COM.  I would pursue SOAP.  Then you
are offering services that are running under an architecture that hopefully
is becoming more common place (at least in the near futre).

Bob Byron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Loafman" <ken at lt.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] COM and Linux


> No answer yet, so here goes...
> 
> We are an R&D company that has an application that runs on Linux, i.e.
> its strictly a server app, all compute, command line driven, absolutely
> no reason to run on MS at all.  Our spin off company is basically a
> Microsoft shop with only passing familiarity with Linux.  At this point
> in time, if I can get some help on this, we have the ability to keep a
> few servers from going to MS, if we can come up with a good
> inter-process package like COM that works between MS and Linux. 
> Otherwise, they'll wrap the application in a COM wrapper, put multiple
> servers out there, and MS will get the license fees for several years. 
> That would be a loss to the Linux side.
> 
> All help is appreciated.
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
> 
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone here used COM from Mickeysoft to access an application on
> > Linux?
> > 
> > Is there an Open Software solution on the Linux side for such a thing?
> > 
> > Is there a "better" alternative?
> > 
> > ...Thanks,
> > ...Kenneth
> > 
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