> but I fail to=20 > understand why one needs a DCOM and RPC infrastructure just=20 > to get data=20 > from a control system when a simple TCP socket will do. =20 I would prefer a more DCS and OS independent way too. > some comments from a member of the OPC Foundation. He saif=20 > that .NET is=20 > not really fast enough to do real-time data access, based on some=20 > experiments they've done (OPC-XML I think they call it) Please don't mix .NET and OPC-XML. That are technically different topics. OPC-XML is of course much slower than any other communication. I'm wondering for 3 years why the OPC Foundation didn't works out a new standard without DCOM. DCOM is dead since the .NET Framework cames out in 2002 (2001 the betas). Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave