You use the QuickBook example quite a bit.Because it takes only one counter-example to disprove a claim. ;-)
As for your big business "gig" - are you saying you used to do those mega-integrations with VFP? ;-)
Irrespective of "local storage", VFP is unable to talk to/drive these kinds of applications. They are all geared up to use .NET as the "glue".Then of course you should use dotNET. Just as you should put diesel in a diesel car. That's not an argument against putting petrol in a petrol car, though. ;-)
"... 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
