[NTLUG:Discuss] COM and Linux

[Stephen Davidson]

Hi Ken.

Bob's suggestion is a good one.  However, if you want to pursue a lighter weight internal only solution, you might want to look at something like XML-RPC.  You 
may find more people knowledgeble on this topic over at the JavaMUGs mailing list.  For details, http://www.javamug.org.

-Steve


Bob Byron wrote:

> 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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