You need to specify some more about the type of application and your market.

I don't think you can compare VFP to Oracle in terms of database. Oracle wins hands down.

As Craig said, this is a DBA issue. I don't know of any Oracle installation where a DBA wasn't required. If you are selling into small/medium sized companies, I would think the cost of hiring a DBA would be prohibitive. If you're selling into a large company, there may already be a DBA on staff. And if it's a large company they might have VFP on the non-approved list also.

I think your main selling points are cost and any application benefits you might feel you have.

>My company produces an application which uses native VFP databases/tables. Because of the nature of the business our application caters to, there will never be a need to migrate to a database server platform.
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>However, one of our competitors uses Oracle for their data source.
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>In order to woo several potential clients to our application I need to know the benefits of using VFP vs Oracle for our data source.
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>We can already rule out cost and speed of data retrieval; they just don't care about that.
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>What else makes VFP databases/tables preferable to Oracle?