Mike,

I was pleasantly suprised by that link that obviously you've written some time ago. I agree with much of what you said there and gives me the impression that you're belonging to the ones who understand the importance of data ON A LAYERS of an application.

The ones that do not know better or accepts the back-end only part of development, well they have no problems in langugates like VB and C#, Java, etc. But You're right the future will be data on all layers, whether or not it is a VFP like language.

Walter,


>>I was dreaming what if...
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>>VFP developers would take a look at other Microsoft products and really understand them. They could see that much of what they want is there and they could stop dreaming and get to work.
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>Ok, here's another.
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>What if... VFP proponents find that what is lacking can be created by an open source effort for modern platforms.
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>"In my opinion the path to database zen will be designing a next generation file based data engine that runs natively on the platforms of the future, .NET and Linux."
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~DoesAnybodyRememberData~VFP