real-time-data

sending commands to an application from Excel? COM?

I wrote a device controller (rs232) and it is being used successfully, however users want to view data and control the device (or perhaps communicate through my program) from Excel. I dismissed DDE as an option and found that RTD (IRtdServer) is probably a good start (though no way to send data back to the "server" from the real time da...

what's the cheapest way to setup cluster of low latency, low bandwidth servers, like for network game?

I want to have groups of 2-4 users playing a game that will require each user send to the others about 10-20 bytes of info every 1-3 seconds. So basically, low bandwidth usage, but low latency required. So I would like to have my own server/cluster of servers to support this communication, e.g. starting with 1000 users simultaneously and...