This smacks of the arguments on here a short while ago as to the viability of VFP in the market.I was trying to say that backend independence lets the developer agree to whatever database policies the customer may have developed at considerable cost, rather than insisting on the developer's preference. If you're saying that your customers don't have such database policies then lucky you. ;-)
FWIW I think there may be some threads here from years ago about doing heavy work on the server. Plain CRUD is one thing but heavy munging can severely impact performance- unless you take it off the server and use some of the grunt of a typical Windows PC. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
