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>>>Again you show your ignorance on the topic.... c# express is FREE, sql Server 2008 Express is FREE.... the only thing would be a couple of hours to put together a couple of screens to handle the requirements.
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>>A couple of hours? Is that the .NET learning curve in your opinion? Even if we're only talking about a form, it's still new controls, including figuring out how to do drag and drop between them, a new data access method, etc.
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>I could do it in a couple of hours. Who said anything about learning curves? It would be the same using VFP9, if the user knew nothing about programming.

Agreed. I just ass-umed that since Randy is a VFP guy, and expressed the question in VFP terms, that is where he is coming from. I wasn't trying to make any sweeping comparisons.