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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] OPC
From:       Jan Ciger <jan.ciger () epfl ! ch>
Date:       2005-01-31 22:00:24
Message-ID: 41FEAA78.5010601 () epfl ! ch
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chris oloo wrote:
| has anyone heard anything about OPC? if yes,can you do anything to
| develop OPC on linux? i think it will introduce linux in industry. i
| have located source code of an OPC server/client. but this source
| code is written in visual basic. for people who are more interrested
| in this,say it here,i would publish the url of the source code
|

Ever heard anything about CORBA ? That's a real industrial standard
which is used for a long time for mission-critical things and many
implementations exists for almost every platform imaginable. I have yet
to see something really mission-critical (e.g. a powerplant) with DCOM.
Not to mention the extremely poor security that DCOM has ... (heard
about ActiveX ?)

The key part there is "new way to exchange informations between
applications of M$ windows in 32 bits environnement." - if you get a
working MS compatible version of DCOM for Linux, somebody may start to
think about this. Otherwise it is useless effort trying to chase
proprietary closed specs with no real use for the product - if you are
building something around COM, you are  targeting Windows and nothing
else. Furthermore, I have my doubts e.g. about support from the vendors
of the controlled equipment if you use non-certified COM implementation
to drive it. However, feel free to start a project trying to implement
this.

BTW, what has this to do with Mandrake Linux ?

Regards,

Jan

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Jan Ciger
VRlab EPFL Switzerland
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