I agree with much that you said. However, MS is not pushing VFP too hard as the middle tier to the non-VFP community from what I have seen. Also, I would have to disagree with you concerning VFP's views. My research has shown that utilizing Stored Procedures on the back-end provide the best results in data retrieval, which VFP's views do not provide. Of course, you can call those SP's through code as opposed to utilizing the GUI based views. Correct me if I am still wrong here...

I would like to do more with VFP as a middle tier, even as the backend. I do not see the point in a fat client that ties up the user's computer to process data. More and more I want to use night jobs and even out-of-process VFP OLE servers to move the processing to the server.

I want to honestly use VFP in an n-tier environment. I am making an effort to get over the various things lacking in VFP. I know that no development tool is perfect.

How did you get up to speed with VFP OLE servers? Where can one find the best examples of building an effective n-tier app with VFP?

Thanks,
Jack