Hello all,

At the moment I'm using microsoft would like to be able to run on good operating systems.

I'm using a COM server above a big bunch of software to control a machine. I'm using COM because that way I can have multiple applications simultaneously use the machine.
Putting it another way, I can have only one instance of my software running but I need to let several apps access it.

Can I achieve the same thing with Qt?

I think this is the same as asking - Can I realise remote procedure calling in Qt?
Can I then do RPC over a network? (that'd be verry handy too!)
Do I get caught up in protocols? (I think if I want to use soap I'll get lost interpreting function calls and their parameters. I have hundreds of function calls with all sorts of parameters)

what's the best thing for a job like this?

All your thoughts would be very appreciated....

thanks
K