Bob,

I agree with you!. . . I was simply pointing out that you will not get what you think you would get *IF* you tried to make the middle tier an Out-Process Server.

On the other hand I have heard that some folk do not mind running the second tier on the client - it is the same code for all clients after all.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>My understanding of about the best you could achieve with VFP and multi-tier is a tier-1 of VFP, a tier-2 of VFP in-process (DLL) server (that is, VFP 2nd tier residing on same system as client, and a non-VFP thrid tier. The non-VFP thrid tier would be the DB component and something supported by MTS (or
>whatever did the trick).
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>Well...
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>If I were going to do a 3-Tier... the middle tier would have to be an out-of-process automation server so that it could be on a remote machine. Whats the use of doing three tier if the middle-tier run runs on the same machine as the client tier? I might as well do two tier (front end/back end) in that case.
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>Thanks for your comments.
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>BOb