Hi Evan ---
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>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?

Jack made a good point about it being difficult to find really good VFP developers. However, it has to be pointed out that VFP is also a bit more scalable than VB (although that may change with the new VS DE tool....VB will catch up but not surpass).