>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

Arnon -

I realize it is not a simple question and that is why in my first post I said "I know there are a multitude of factors involved, and such comparisons must be made carefully, but any experiences would be helpful at this point."

The statement that you can't compare the two is useless to a potential customer that is trying to decide between an Oracle solution and a VFP one.

Let me phrase my question in another way. Assume there is an business problem that you believe a VFP / COM solution would give the lowest cost/performace ratio. Your potential customer doesn't understand COM and wants more specifics on VFP performance with COM objects, specifically compared to Oracle? What would you do?

- Mark