in reply to COM Objects and the need to know more
You have several obstacles in your course which might or might not be easy to navigate:
Perl cannot easily access COM objects. Any access to COM requires Perl on Windows1. If they are OLE objects, you can easily access them on the Windows machine by using Win32::OLE.
If you need the data on Linux, either push the data from Windows to the Linux MySQL database using ODBC and/or DBD::MySQL or serve the data retrieved from the OLE object as files or via a Perl program to the Linux machine.
1 I know that technically you can use COM over the network by using DCOM and/or SUN/RPCE, but as I have done so in a former life, I wouldn't recommend this to anybody without dire need.
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