>The main advantages of Foxfire! are in allowing a user to design their own reports, and to allow me as a developer to design an import reports more quickly.

There are third party tools for Crystal that do the same thing.

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>With Foxfire! I can implement reports on my user's machine, I do not have to compile a new executable and distribute it.

I can do that now with 100% FoxPro (no third party products)

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>Foxfire! 8+ does have 2 specific features that I do not think exist in VFP at this point.
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>1) It has a 'live design surface' where you can preview what your report will look like while you are still doing the layout. You can also add, move and delete fields directly on the live design surface.

I've seen it. It's pretty cool.

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>2) Foxfire! is also releasing a web based version which is completely inter-operable with the windows desktop version. You can design in windows and run on the web and vice-versa.

I haven't seen that yet, but Chuck told me about it last year. But in the end, it's still limited by what Fox reports are capable of doing.

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>Burt