>Mark(s :) )
>you are diregarding an important issue which is the scope of the Data , number of concurrent users etc. for the targeted system
>MS software (and that is NT,SQL Server and VFP) does not scale as well as Oracle
>(or other RDBMSs and OSs) on the higher ends
>
>For some setups VFP (as a backend) will be faster and for others it wont for some situations VFP can't even handle the size of the data - so, again, i don't think you can really say one is better than the other, nor you can directly compare them
>
>Arnon

Do you have specific data where you have compared a VFP COM server against Oracle? For any settings of the variables you mentioned? Do you know where I can get some?