Our shop has been developing strictly distributed apps using DCOM (w/VB) since DCOM was available. Now, if I read the papers right, Bill Gates is saying that XML is the stuff that will Microsoft will use to link multi-tiers together in distributed apps.<br><br>Can this be true? I know virtually nothing about XML.<br> <p>John Kisner<br><a href=mailto:jlkisner@jlkisner.com>jlkisner@jlkisner.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>