>It is no harder to use SQL than to use DBFs in this model, so I choose to use SQL, since that gives me the advantage of a real CS database. Jim Duffy and Gary DeWitt often made the point that using MSDE/SQL let you have one code base for a simple desktop app or a much larger installation. Especially useful in verticals.
It was Gary who initially convinced Jim that MSDE/SQL was the way to go about doing true client-server apps. Then Duffy just went evangelical after that. <g>