>Perhaps this has been discussed before but what are the chief differences between VFP and Powerbuilder? What are the strengths and weaknesses of both products if they go head to head?

Parts of my agency use PB quite extensively (not my choice :))...the most obvious difference is that PB has no native DB as vfp does, so pretty much everything associated with data has more work involved, and is generally not as fast. On the plus side, the PB Datawindow is quite strong...