>Ken,
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>Please forgive my ignorance here, but just HOW does this make VFP a "middle tier" app (in the 'demos' you report on)????
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>I don't see MIDDLE here at all!

No problem.

Let me ask you this, if the web browser is the Presentation Layer (and a very "thin" client at that), and the SQL Server is the Data Layer, and the VPF EXE COM Server was accepting, processing and validating information requests between the Presentation Layer (Top) and the Data Layer (Bottom) then what layer is it? I've always thought the thing between the Top and Bottom was the Middle ;)