RightRight! ;-)
The VFP position is actually quite straight-forward; the NET side probably needs to include some database server-side options to display the opportunity at its best. I'd be inclined to use Oracle for the NET side to break a few more preconceptions on that side. Or perhaps MySQL, though I haven't tried that from NET yet. Might be fun.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1