>>>>>Then why not Access? There are far more copies of Access sold than VFP. And just like VFP, Access has its own database and royalty free runtime.
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>Sorry, one point on Access - everyone knew it was a dog, everyone knew it would never compete with SQL. Too slow and not as rich an environment as VFP. Access isn't the same as VFP.

And VFP doesn't compete with SQL Server for anything except small databases. Even then, it has serious deficiencies.

It does, however, make a nice front end for SQL.