>Charles, we've been backend-agnostic since 1995.
I think there is more resistance to data stored in DBFs than there is to middle and presentation tiers done in VFP. And it seems in the developer's best interest, as well to, be able to address a backend that has a lot of additional capabilities ( as well as meeting client internal IT policy requirements. )
And of course your strategy is a good arguement for all VFP developers honing their n-tier design skills. It is a very good way to get a lot more life out of a very good tool.
>>Various customers have Oracle, SQL Server, more recently MySQL seems dominant in the LAMP arena. The only trouble we ever had was a product called Cache that was being presented as a SQL Database when it is not.
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