>That's partly true. But there are some areas where VFP does things better. There are some apps where it makes sense to rely on persistent local datasets that automatically span to disk, for example. 4 years after this was observed and was roundly slated by people who choose to address others as you do ;-) MS is promoting SSCE to serve this need. Why do you suppose that is?

John, bear in mind that my opinions are just that. 100% of my current development is with large, multi-user sql sever deployments and that certainly does affect those opinions.