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After all I have said about idiocy of OPC's DCOM approach, I have just found out that MS
have now officially abandoned COM technology in favour of their emerging .NET SOAP
architecture. This technology is NOT upwards compatible with the DCOM technology on
which OPC is fundamentally based, and is even less adept at interfacing to factory
environments.
So there we have it folks, the automation industry is falling over itself to adopt a
technology that cannot be implemented directly on most of its products, has an architecture which is the reverse of that required, and has now been abandoned by the only OS manufacturer who was promoting it in the first place.
Now I am off to start an industry group that will promote the deployment of IBM AS400's in
industrial automation..........don't laugh, at least they are reliable and stable;-)
have now officially abandoned COM technology in favour of their emerging .NET SOAP
architecture. This technology is NOT upwards compatible with the DCOM technology on
which OPC is fundamentally based, and is even less adept at interfacing to factory
environments.
So there we have it folks, the automation industry is falling over itself to adopt a
technology that cannot be implemented directly on most of its products, has an architecture which is the reverse of that required, and has now been abandoned by the only OS manufacturer who was promoting it in the first place.
Now I am off to start an industry group that will promote the deployment of IBM AS400's in
industrial automation..........don't laugh, at least they are reliable and stable;-)