>I believe that too Terry, but we just had a potential customer return our product stating that their network admin wouldn't allow Foxpro on their system. I was in shock. Still am.

Wouldn't it be funny if they were doing their accounting with ACCPAC? MS stock seems to correlate well with MS's basement-mentality efforts to clear up the myths and lies that they have allowed to go unchallenged.
How did a Network Administrator ever get in the sales cycle loop? You have to qualify personalities and develop a closing (or exit) strategy. Weird too that language would come up. But with any kind of sales, direct the focus on what the program does and what that means to their operation.

You could come up with a "fib". C++ is part of the installer. What is the database? It's a microsoft Rushmore database - the fastest in the world.

Maybe Ken can pop in. Since MS is having a hard time correcting a perception based on lies, lies that affect our bottom line, maybe Ken can give us a way to answer that question when we meet a guy whose fondest memory EVER, dare I say, was a first burp at a Redmond buffet!

I have had that happen twice. In both cases a company VP told the NA that the software "would" be installed. The program had already demonstrated a "value" to the suits. It was in. An NA with a foot in mouth is something to behold!

Network administrators are only important as long as they have something to administrate. They live in corners, with pipes and painted cinder block walls. They are always between a game of solitare and "tuning" that MS Access program they've been working on for 16 years to automate the tracking of the not-particularly interesting pedigrees miniature goats.

They never get dates - all they get is that one little moment that confirms why they live in corners - as the nivarna of that fateful "burp" reminds them of cookie table gossip fueled by MS reps VFP warnings. Microsoft is relying an awful lot on misinformation to low-on-the-food-chain "NO" guys that will assure expensive, over configured license hogs for them to administrate. Get it? That "lonely" Network Administrator is the last line of defense against the terror of common sense and MS knows it!