>That is an interesting point. I've heard a lot of good things about Delphi.... But, since MS will rule the world(IMHO), I think I'll stay away from any proprietary Database packages (refering to InterBase).

Delphi is a very powerful tool, and as it based on pascal it is easy to many programmers to catch

>I have, however, had the (unfortunate?) opportunity to start learning VC++ lately, and so far it seems pretty cool. I think I'll add that to my forte' over time and see what happens....

what I really hate when I program in C (any flavour) is that I keep forgetting putting those ; at the end of line :)

Arnon