>Jim,
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>I'm not bothered by "MS pushing VFP as a middle tier", as long as the language continues to develop.
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>However, it seems to me that such a deployment of VFP more-or-less *HAS* to be restricted to In-PROCESS server as opposed to OUT-PROCESS.
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>Is this a legitimate conclulsion (at least given the present state of ADO)??
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>Regards,
>
>Jim N

Jim,

I don't think so. Out of process servers are just as usefull, and sometimes more usefull, than in process servers for business logic objects.