On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:41:13 -0500, you wrote: > > Hello! > > I have some questions about Wine and how/if it can be used with industrial communication like OPC (MicroSoft Com/DCom objects, DDE and more) > > My short question is: > Can I use Wine to make OPC communication work with a Linux system. > > OPC "OLE for Process Control" > A "general" standard for communication in industrial systems, that unfortunately is totally depending on Windows > > > I work on a small company in Sweden who make industrial computers for the industry, and when we a few years ago had to choose operating system for our new model I got them to choose Linux. And almost everything is perfect, we have had a working product for almost a year now, and everything is good. > But now our company needs to support OPC, this is a big problem that makes a lot of people in the company start saying things like WinCE or Win XP embedded. > > I am more in need to make/use same kind of OPC api for Linux then running a windows program. > Although I could have a Win program running in Wine on the Linux machine talking with the main app on the same computer and talking OPC to other machines that need that. > > I hope Wine and/or you can help me in this case. It would be a tragedy if we had to switch operating system just because of this. Yes, that would be tragic. I remember that OPC heavily uses DCOM. I do not think that wine's implementation is sufficiently advanced and compatible to have much hope. Yet the experts are on the developer list, you will get a better answer there. Then, did you really look very well for a native Linux solution? After looking only 20 seconds on www.opcfoundation.org (those that created OPC specs in the first place) I see already client and server Toolkits for Unix/Linux. Rein. -- Rein Klazes rklazes@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
