Thanks Andrew.

>>> From what I remember if I used FoxFire I'd have to pay royalties. Is it still the case? To me this is a no-go. Even if the present version of FoxFire is a lot better than the version of Stonefield Report that I use.
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>Denis, you only have to pay royalties with Foxfire! if you were distributing a commercial product. With earlier versions, if you were building custom applications and were only using FoxPro tables, there were no additional fees.
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>With Foxfire!, users were and are always free to run existing reports. This lets a developer purchase Foxfire!, embed it into their application for report running purposes - if their users want to create their own reports, then licenses would have to be purchased. In Foxfire! 8, anyone who has to create a new report or edit an existing one has to have their own license (which is similar to Stonefield, I believe, where everyone needs a separate license).
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>Source code for the core designer in Foxfire! is also included but the product has been further leveraged with "hooks" or "plugins" - so you can redesign the interface without having to recompile the code, which can be kind of handy.