>>> I've heard rumors that Microsoft is going to try to push VFP into the middle tier with . . . its so hard even to say the words . . . Visual
>.. Basic at the front end and Sequel Server at the back end. Is their any truth to these rumors?
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>Actually, MS is trying to push all of the development tools into the middle tier. They don't think front-ends should be written in anything other than IE 4.0 specific DHTML. Since VB - for the most part - has inferior data access to VFP and has slower data access than VFP this actually is better for VFP than it is VB. Of course, if the front-end is not going to be IE 4.0 than MS would prefer VB or VFP.

Thats a good point, Mike, about DHTML or XML front-ends. I think MS prefers VB at all times to VFP. You *never* see a solution or case-study by MS where VFP is doing anything that you can't get VB to do.