Because your first statement isn't correct.Let me guess- it's because "client-agnostic systems have value", right? As opposed to "database-agnostic systems have value" or "platform-agnostic systems have value" ;-)
It is certainly true that some tools just aren't very good at handling large local datasets. White papers are therefore produced warning of the risk and advocating use of stored procedures. At least one MVP asserted in the original discussion that for this reason, VFP's local data handling is of little value. Take a look- you know him. ;-) If you believe that
people SHOULD be provoked into learning more about a technology before jumping to conclusions, why don't you go and provoke them?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
