>>VFP is more productive:

>Agreed. Totally. Seen simple 20 hour VFP apps become 20 day VB projects all else being equal.

>>VFP is faster at data manipulation:
>>VFP is simply the fastest database because of Rushmore. Certain faster than JET.

>Agreed although VB with Embedded SQL Server 7.0 (coming soon) may be really close.

>>VFP apps are easier to maintain:
>>Once again if OOP is used properly, application maintenance is simpler.

>Completely agree. Again...ALL else being equal.

Thanks for your comments John. I will be experimenting with VB6 for creating databases this fall and will be doing a comparison between that and VFP6. The main crieria for assessment will be as above (developer productivity, application performance and application maintance cost). Are there any other criteria I should be using?